RodeWorks

Great advice — I just set it up for my Verizon account — AT&T offers something similar. Sprint and T-Mobile offer some blocking features as well. How nice of David Pogue and the NYT to make sure we all know this!

How to Block Cellphone Spam - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog

* Verizon Wireless: Log in at vtext.com. Under Text Messaging, click Preferences. Click Text Blocking. You’re offered choices to block text messages from e-mail or from the Web. Here again, you can block specific addresses or Web sites. (Here’s where you set up your aliases, too.)