When you unblock someone can you receive the messages they sent while they were blocked

Lol I came on here to ask a simple question, looking for a simple answer, why am I ready "meg st. Claire's" asking what seems like judgmental questions on why ppl chose to do what they did? Thanks to cool hand and Michael for answering this helped me.

BMCTM wrote:

Lol I came on here to ask a simple question, looking for a simple answer, why am I ready "meg st. Claire's" asking what seems like judgmental questions on why ppl chose to do what they did?

Because if we understand why people want to do something, we can provide better answers. In this case, DND was a possibility that would work well for some people and that hadn't gotten mentioned and probably wouldn't have without clarifying questions. "LOL".

And understand, blocking is not intended as a recreational tool....The reason blocking was introduced was to protect people from callers who were harrassing, bullying, threatening, or in some other way causing serious problems from the person on the receiving side.

This was in response to concerned parents, abused spouses, frightened ex-partners, etc, looking for a solution to a serious problem.

So, LOL - it is not a simple situation....and Meg provided a simple way to accomplish what the OP was asking.

GB

I completely understand asking questions to help a person accomplish a task they need help with. i.e. You could try silent rings and not responding it would be easier than blocking. Rather than using phrases if you want someone out of your life bad enough and why would you want to keep track of their messages. That's all my point was.

BMCTM wrote:

I completely understand asking questions to help a person accomplish a task they need help with. i.e. You could try silent rings and not responding it would be easier than blocking.

It's hard to make intelligent, useful suggestions without knowing why someone wants to do something. Hence the questions. No one here reads minds.

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And BTW I blocked a number because it would not leave messages after calling. I found out it was a creditor I wanted to see if they had left any messages. Simple, not sure if your accusing me of using it as a "recreational tool"

OK.

BMCTM wrote:

And BTW I blocked a number because it would not leave messages after calling. I found out it was a creditor I wanted to see if they had left any messages. Simple, not sure if your accusing me of using it as a "recreational tool"

You can find voicemail messages from people you have blocked in the Deleted Messages folder in VM.

Using loaded words like "accusing" doesn't really help. Gail (not the OP, by the way), was attempting to explain how a feature worked so that people can better understand its features and limitations.

No one is accusing you of anything. You posted an editorial on a question that was origianally asked 5 months ago, and which was then resurrected in January, to which Meg responded. You didn't ask a question, you posted comments about how a previous poster's question was answered:

BMCTM wrote:

Lol I came on here to ask a simple question, looking for a simple answer, why am I ready "meg st. Claire's" asking what seems like judgmental questions on why ppl chose to do what they did? Thanks to cool hand and Michael for answering this helped me.

So, not sure what the purpose of your post was. If Michael and cool hand answered your question, then posting to say that it helped you is great. Why you needed to also call out your displeasure with a response that was not directed at you is not clear.....

GB

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Will the "." ever cease????? This is getting crazy. At least it seems to be happening with browsers other than Firefox, so I know it's not me.... 😐

GB

gail from maine wrote:

Will the "." ever cease????? This is getting crazy. At least it seems to be happening with browsers other than Firefox, so I know it's not me.... 😐

It's a Jive problem that resurfaces periodically. If you can still edit your own post, you can add a space at the end of it and then the replies below it will appear. But, after the edit window closes, the period post is the only way to go. 🙂

Oh, well that is good to know! Much better than a bunch of posts with periods in them! Thanks for the tip Meg! 🙂

GB

Ok but then what if you need to use your iPhone or iPad for something important - and you don't want any distractions for the time being , or you are expecting an important call; and your friend (whom you don't want out of your life) is spamming your inbox with messages? - given that you can't tell them to stop because you're too busy or they don't want to stop because they (I don't know) think it's funny or something stupid like that?

I really think that a temporary blocking system is far better than throwing the messages away for good just in case they tell you something important amongst the nonsense. Turning on 'do not disturb' would prevent you from hearing another persons messages which you need to see. I think it would just be better for messages not to be lost in transmission.