Apple has this problem also and many others
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Sorry my friend, but what point you are trying to make is not a good one.
No clue what you are talking about, but my galaxy s4 on t-mobile does all this functionality in the stock sms app and in chomp.
Must be an at&t 4.2.2 bug.
Not the first time at&t screws up the customer experience. :'(