Re: My cellphone's SMS software

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From: Arthur Bergman
Subject: Re: My cellphone's SMS software
Date: 10:15 on 25 Feb 2004
On 25 Feb 2004, at 08:20, Ann Barcomb wrote:

> Lately I started sending SMSs again, and after several messages
> which failed to send, a distant part of my memory was revived and
> I remembered similar problems I had a few years ago.
>
> Specifically, any message which contains an unclosed right paran
> will fail to send.  So 'hey there :)' gives the unhelpful error
> 'Message failed in sending'.
>
> Not only does the error message suck,  the only explanations I
> can come up with for why it might fail are, frankly, rather
> scary.
>
> - Ann
>

Cell phone software seems to be extremely flakey and scary, we just had 
to reorder the order of Cookies and Content-Length in our response 
header to get the J2ME app to pick up the Content-Length. Here too, the 
only explanations I can come up with are rather scary and makes my 
blood boil.

Arthur

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