Is this legal HTML?

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Joseph Wang (joe@athena.mit.edu)
Sun, 28 Mar 93 15:41:33 EST

Is it legal HTML to start an internal anchor without a closing </A>?
For example, <A NAME="foo"> without a </A>

The trouble with doing this is that the hypertext browser has no way of
knowing whether to highlight the text behind the starting anchor or not.