From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>Now Google Messages makes it easy, add multiple phone numbers to a   
   >>conversation, and it'll offer to save the group with a name (that's   
   >>private to you) works with SMS or RCS ...   
   >   
   > I've never seen it offer to save the group with a name. That would be   
   > a useful start.   
      
   Funny story... after testing all the known free SMS/MMS messenger apps long   
   ago, I've been using (the last known good version of) PulseSMS as my   
   SMS/MMS messenger which has always had the ability to name a conversation.   
       
      
   Since the only way to store contact privately is to keep them out of the   
   contacts sqlite database, those named conversations were my contacts too.   
      
   If I wanted to call or text someone, I'd just search for them in PulseSMS.   
   I'd hit the phone icon to call them, or the text icon to message them.   
      
   Recently though, I've started porting those "contacts" from PulseSMS named   
   conversations to the F-Droid DOpen Contacts privacy-aware contacts app.   
    *DOpen Contacts* (Dialer + Open Contacts)   
       
     debug APK available   
    "Even though we are not having any problem sharing our mobile number   
     with all third parties, people in our phone book might have.   
     We should not be sharing their contact information online.   
     This app saves contacts in its own database separate from android   
     contacts. This way no other app would be able to access contacts.   
     Can be used in place of your default phone(dialer) app.   
     It can import contacts from vCard files.   
     So we can export Android contacts and import into this app.   
     Maintains call log as well.   
     Also shows the person's name upon receiving call"   
      
   It's used by people who are courteous to others because it stores the   
   contacts in its own sandboxed database that can't be uploaded by apps.   
      
   All this is simply to opine that being able to name a group seems to me to   
   be one of the basic things that any decent MMS app should be able to do.   
   --   
   Most people know three of the million things they should know about   
   privacy, where some people design privacy into everything they do.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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