Re: [ros-general] Indiegogo Campaign

---- Geoff Shang [e-mail] wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > As some of you know the ReactOS Project recently launched an Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/reactos-community-edition) to fund development of a Community Edition where backers get a say in priority for software and hardware support. The project has been going strong but we're still a long way from the finish goal.
> > That www.indiegogo.com URL was invalid when I just clicked on it.
> Worked for me.
> Geoff.

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...

One annoying feature of webmail is messing up the web links.

Tom

[Geoff Shang]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, [e-mail] 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.

---- Geoff Shang [e-mail] wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, [e-mail] 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