[ros-general] Indiegogo Campaign

[mueller6723 at twc.com]

---- Geoff Shang <geoff at QuiteLikely.com> wrote: 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, mueller6723 at 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%252Fprojects%252Freactos-community-edition%2529&hmac=999360109d4c6fecd7d348ed5b9b7b1a
> 
> 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