---- Geoff Shang geoff@QuiteLikely.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, mueller6723@twc.com wrote:
I made the URL work indirectly from the webmail interface by copying and pasting with the mouse. Maybe the URL that failed was the webmail-doctored version, which was
http://webmail.twc.com/do/redirect?url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.indiegogo.com...
Ergh ugly! I think the '25's are messing it up, they shouldn't be there.
Personally, I would refuse to use an email service that tracked my clicks. But each to their own.
Geoff.
Much of the time, I can't even see a cursor in this webmail interface, making it difficult to see where I am.
As webmail and other services doctor web addresses to track users' clicks, there is much room for bugs when it becomes so complicated even the webmaster messes it up.
But I can still use nonweb mail clients such as msmtp (msmtp.sourceforge.net) and mpop (mpop.sourceforge.net) and a text editor such as vi (standard part of Unix and quasi-Unix OSes). That requires an installed OS on hard drive or other bootable readable-writable drive such as USB stick. I believe msmtp and mpop are supposed to be usable even on DOS (such as FreeDOS) and Windows, meaning it should work for ReactOS.
Tom