Monday, June 16, 2008

Your very own Do-Not-Text list

LifeHacker snagged a good one from NYT's David Pogue:
How to Block Cellphone Spam

Shortly [after posting a rant about spam text messages] I heard from an AT&T representative who revealed the presence of an astonishing little-known cellular feature: you can block cellular spam.
Yes!

Different providers do this differently - but I was able to get signed up with AT&T in a few minutes (mymessages.wireless.att.com).

It being AT&T - I was (of course) obligated to create another log in for this service (I believe that brings my AT&T login total up to five) - but I was allowed to block all internet driven text that wasn't addressed to an alias I chose.

Nice.

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