Have you ever gotten text messages that you didn’t want to receive? Well, if you have unlimited text then there is no charge, but the trilling or buzzing of a message indicator can be a nuisance. It seems that this is a no-brainer service that phone companies should provide, but it seems to be a closely guarded secret. I have Alltel, which is now Verizon and it does appear you can manage mobile phone to phone text by sending 8888 text messages.
If you put 8888 in the to line and the command in the body of the message you can better manage text messages. For example,
- Block: B 5175551212 sent to 8888 - (note the space) then messages sent from that 10-digit number after the B are blocked
- List: Send L to 8888 and you will get a message indicating the numbers that you have blocked
- Unblock: Send U followed by a 10-digit number and you can unblock messages.
I got a response to a B command and an L command, so it looks like this works. You can also manage email to text blocks online at alltel.com.
If you have another provider then you will have to contact your provider for provider-specific information. It took me a while to find text messaging management commands for my phone/provider, but ain’t Google grand.