A few months ago my wife had a couple of spam messages on her phone, seeing
we have to pay for incoming messages I complained to T-mobile and they gave
us credit.  They also said to reply to the message with the word "stop" and
they should take us off their list.  The phone replies didn't work for some
reason just came up with an error.  I did notify the FTC via spam@uce.gov as
I've been doing with spam received on my computer's email.  My wife doesn't
use text messaging so I asked if there was anyway to disable it, they said
no, they needed it to send us account related messages.

Last Friday I had a spam message on my phone and complained again.  Again
sending "stop" didn't work.  I asked them if they did any spam blocking,
they said I could goto the web site and put in a block by keying in
information from the message.  They gave me credit and I notified the FTC.

Received messages used to be free but since they started charging I've been
getting upset.  I think we ought to have the option of disabling text
messaging completely or being able to turn it on only when we need it.  They
could have better filtering we could enable if we want ie blocking message
sent via the bcc field.

Just wondering what your thoughts were on the subject?