On Monday 09 November 2009 01:04:55 Stroller wrote: > I feel kinda ridiculous having to write such a long email - and > perhaps spend a bunch more time writing scripts - to handle such a > stupid thing. I guess the ridiculous thing is the cell company adding > all this junk to a simple text message. But I can really imagine this > formatting getting my goat enormously over time, and I don't want to > get annoyed at my friend over such a trivial thing.
To my mind, the solution seems obvious: Change your friend's behaviour, because you are unlikely to change T-Mobile. Just tell her that her messages are an unreadable mess that no sane person on the planet can work with, and she should please use a different means of communicating with you. Real friends will understand. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com