I, Brad Lucier, have fixed a long-standing bug in amstex.  Now, if
one wants to add an e-mail address or URL (web page address) to an
amstex document, one can say, e.g.,

\input amstex
\documentstyle{amsppt} % or imappt, or ...
\input verbatim        % needed
\document
My e-mail address is \verb|lucier@math.purdue.edu|.

My home page is \verb+http://www.math.purdue.edu/~lucier+.

Here is a list of e-mail addresses:

\beginverbatim
lucier@math.purdue.edu
postmaster@math.purdue.edu
webmaster@math.purdue.edu
\endverbatim

\enddocument

\verb is a command that allows you to insert things with funny
characters into an amstex document and have them printed verbatim (and
in a typewriter font).  The first character after \verb is chosen by the
typist to be the delimiter for that use of \verb.  In the first example,
it's |, in the second, it's +.

\beginverbatim and \endverbatim are used to insert a block of text
verbatim into an amstex document.

Brad