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Are you getting text-message spam on your cell phone?

If not, you may see it at some point. Washington Post has an article about the increasing about of text-message advertising being generated. And unlike spam in your inbox, or telemarketing calls to your home, these text-message spams can cost minutes against your plan.

AG Nixon has been calling on the state legislature to strengthen the No Call list for years, but no dice yet. He wants, among other things, cell phones to be added to the No Call list. Under the law, we can only take residential landline phones. If we could get that change, it could block unsolicited text-message ads.

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Posted by Travis on March 10, 2008 10:27 am :: Comments (2) :: Permalink

2 Responses to "Are you getting text-message spam on your cell phone?"

Dusty says:

April 15, 2008 6:15 pm

This site has an interesting idea to fight spam text messages: http://www.spamfreetext.com I've been using it for a few months with no problems, so far. Apparently, whatever filters they use are working.

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Travis says:

April 16, 2008 10:51 am

FYI, I checked out the above site Dusty menntions, and it's free for now. The site says it may start charging eventually.

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