On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Bob McConnell <r...@cbord.com> wrote:
> From: Ashley Sheridan
>> On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 18:01 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> > Wow! Here goes:
>>> >
>>> > Open-bracket, dollar item hypen greater-than, get service id, no
> all one word but with a capital S and I. Open and close brackets,
> question mark, dollar item again, then a hyphen and greater-than, that
> get service id and brackets bit again, exactly the same as last time;
> yes, capital S and I again. Colon, no the colon is the one with two
> dots, not dot and comma. Dollar item again, then hypen, greater-than,
> get id, with a capital I. Nope, no service bit this time. Now, open
> bracket and two closing brackets (I assumed the final two on your
> example were typos?!). now a semi-colon, yes the one with the comma.
>>> >
>>> > That's pretty much how I could foresee me telling someone this on
> the phone, but to be honest, I'd really prefer an email ;)
>>> >
>>>
>>> So it really involves mentioning each character. I was hoping that
>>> there would be a shared language for constructs such as -> and the
>>> like.
>
>
>> Not that I know of, and trying to explain any sort of code over the
>> phone is just going to lead to a disaster down the line!
>
> The only time I would even consider doing that would be when I am using
> a TTD connection to communicate with a hearing impaired individual.
>
> Bob McConnell
>

Basically, use a modem.

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