Admin login reset.

Club 3834, etc.

Thanks for your patience. After some futzing I confirmed that indeed my email (webmail) vendor is indeed ‘smothering’ links inside received emails by attempting to do local (my IPad) systemwide prepending of a custom string to any link in an apparent attempt to provide “a more consistent user experience” (or some such). After eventually evading such ‘helpfulness’ and manually stripping out the custom string, I tried the resulting ‘raw’ string in both Chrome and Safari on my IPad. Note that Safari has cookies enabled and does NOT block pop-ups (System options). On Chrome the pop-ups were blocked, so after finding that option, I switched it off and did a re-try (again on the suitably stripped link). Sadly in all these cases, the Pop-up which is evidently supposed to manifest failed to appear. BIG SIGH. (What happened to the good old days when you could actually DO THINGS with computers, and they GOT DONE?). If something obvious does not jump out soon, I may just use a library Win machine or some such, just hoping and praying for reasonable behavior... Do let me know if there is some other thing that might be worth trying on my IPad, though.... Again, thanks for your patience.... Chris ‘TattleTongue’.....

Unfortunately, I think your experience is likely to become more common, not that it should make you feel any better. Frankly, I am not sure what we are going to do in the future if our links get buried to the extent that it gets confusing what to actually click. It seems a bit counterproductive to me.

People tend to blame the software they are using for problems they experience, even when that software has nothing to do with the issue. The result is that software vendors end up putting in all sorts "helpful protections" in place that may be ok for naive users, but just cause headaches for everyone else. For instance, I believe that Microsoft is doing something similar with Outlook.

One thing you may try is to see if you can just copy the link address from our link and then paste it into the address box for a new browser tab. That would be a way of using the link without making the link itself do the navigation.