In the light of this: is there any way to disable the redirect of external links? It would be nice to just load the PM.com thread, leave it open, disable the proxy/VPN and navigate to the link the normal way. However, since the redirect links only work with accessing the forum server first they are unusable, too, forcing one to go through (not very secure, by the way) VPN/proxy for a huge portion of external websites linked to on here, too.
Would be nice if the forum administration could at least disable that until the access problems are solved (which isn't the case, yet).
Thanks in advance!
best wishes Michiru
EDIT: Some links don't even work, because the websites linked to are blocked by some proxy services, like this one in John Wagenseil's "Web Page with Collection of Paper Model Sites":
Code:
http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fpc-maker.net%2Findex.html
Which isn't that bad for this particular link, because the link text hasn't been automatically shortened, but others... *shrugs* You'd have to manually try, copy, paste into a text editor and replace %2F with a /, %3A with :, etc, so you get http: // pc-maker . net/ index . html (spaces included to prevent automatic creation of a hyperlink).