Embedded links in Mail

I have a circulation list of some 150 or so addressees to which I send a newsletter from time to time, and I use an Address Book group to achieve this. So far so good. However, I have a problem, or at least some of my recipients appear so to do.
Not all of them are computer savvy (I know, I know, that's exactly like the pot calling the kettle black, but bear with me on this please - Mea culpa!) and they have been unable to change or tweak their various spam filters or ISPs to accept all mail from me as "safe".
Consequently, as many emails contain several links to on-line articles, these are getting identified as spam and do not reach the recipients, all of whom voluntarily have asked to be included on the list and have access to a genuine "opt out" facility.
So, to try and help, I want to send mails in which the links appear as text and not embedded clickable links, but in a way such that even the least computer literate reader can cut and paste the "link" into their browser and navigate to the target from there.
I have tried missing off the http://, I have tried replacing the http with h**p, I have tired introducing spaces and I have tried kicking the neighbour's cat, all to no avail.
How can I include "cut and paste" links which can be transferred to a browser with the minimum of reader intervention (even removing spaces confuses some of them) whilst still retaining the ability to include formatting in my emails?
Thanks in advance - and please be gentle with me!

When using RTF, and two or more fonts, plus attachments, we know that Mail 2.x converts the RTF to HTML, and this HTML is what typically triggers the SPAM filters for some recipients. Nevertheless, I have seen a few institutional filters reject PDF files because they contained live links.
As you describe your newsletter, there are many things that would be suspects to trigger SPAM filters, and with some recipients, only their relaxing the filters would allow HTML laden messages or attachments to arrive.
A message composed with Plain Text, however, would be expected to allow both links and attachments to arrive in good order. When you include the cuttings you mention, you may have trouble with them in Plain Text, but you would need to simply check this.
Ernie

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