Writing Tip: Should I use punctuation after a URL?

This seems to be a common problem:

When you write a web address at the end of a sentence, should you follow it with punctuation, or use no punctuation (to help avoid breaking the web link)?

For example, should I write…

Who likes www.chow.com?

or just

Who likes www.chow.com

??

In years past this was a real problem, but these days you can stop worrying about it.

Using Microsoft Word, Gmail, Outlook, etc., punctuation will not cause a problem — the software has caught up and it will create an accurate link for you, in spite of any punctuation that follows it.