Re: [ros-general] Indiegogo Campaign

---- Geoff Shang <geoff(a)QuiteLikely.com> wrote: 
>   On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, mueller6723(a)twc.com 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.co…

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

Tom

[Geoff Shang]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, mueller6723(a)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.co…
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 <geoff(a)QuiteLikely.com> wrote: 
>   On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, mueller6723(a)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.co…
>  
>  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