I don't want one company to be the arbiter of all communications everywhere. Phone numbers work fine. For me too and if there is an application that allows to

I don't want one company to be the arbiter of all communications everywhere. Phone numbers work fine. For me too and if there is an application that allows to block numbers, spam is not a problem. Now I use the Google builtin caller app antispam function. Most of the spam numbers have already been marked as such by somebody else. Even if that didn't exist I could just block the number after the fact and no more calls or SMSs. I'd rather program that myself than relying the functionality to Google, I hope Pine or some other programmable phone gets to a usable state some day. But as of now, it's good enough. Edit: I'm in Spain, not sure if that works the same in the USA.