On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 07:23:17 +1000, dorayme wrote:

Maybe the idea is to put angle brackets to counteract for when the URL
*does* have hard wraps in. Your four examples seem not to include one
of these.

You bring up a good point which is that badly behaved newsreaders need
people to manually insert all sorts of protections to protect people from
the bad behavior of the news reader client.

Since my newsreader is well behaved, nobody should ever have a problem with
the long uri's that I use, but if others have bad Usenet clients, then I
can see that they need to make use of the otherwise useless extraneous
angle bracket characters which just make a long line even longer.