Blacklist SMS numbers

[James]

Requirement to blacklist numbers from messaging app to prevent spam or abusive texts

The Phone app equivalent is bug 1469220.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dubak (rdn2012)]

Dear developers! Can you combine this bug report with one #1469220, because it is the one functionality - to block unwanted calls and messages? I am deeply convinced that the one job must not be divided to several applications, it is wasteful spending of essential resources.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

It is possible to be deeply convinced of something and still be mistaken. Ideally, if you block a number, it should block both calls and messages. But that does not make it “one functionality”. The code for making calls ring except when they are from a blocked number, and the code for displaying text messages except when they are from a blocked number, will be two separate pieces of code. And the UI for blocking a number from the Phone app, and the UI for blocking a number from the Messages app, will be one or two more pieces of code. Those three or four changes might be implemented all at once, but they don’t have to be.