Jerome Fine wrote: 
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 item: 398908711. The full URL is:
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=398908711
 but for some reason, Netscape will not accept any characters in the URL
 after the "&" character.  Can anyone help with that problem? 
Jerome Fine replies (to myself):
I turned off the html text in Netscape when I sent the response and it seems to
have put the complete URL back together.  When I saved the draft before
it was sent, the part after the "&" was not included.  Well, problem half
solved!
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine