How do you preview/delete unwanted texts to avoid charges every time one is sent?

On all of my cell phones before getting the iphone 4, if I received a text message I had a chance to see a small preview or at least the sender in order to accept or delete it before incurring a charge for opening it.  It appears that iphone does not have this feature and any sent texts automatically get opened and I am charged whether I wanted it or not.  Is there a way to activate this functionality or am I just at the mercy of whoever sends me texts and verizon gets their 20 cents from me everytime?  This adds up over a month and I end up paying for messages I do not even want to be getting and I seem to have no control over this unless I block all texts.  This doesn't solve my problem because I do want to receive some texts from those I do want to communicate with, just not the rest.  Almost seems fraudulent, verizon could be sending customers texts from outside sources and each time they earn 20 cents if the customer doesn't pay for an unlimited texting plan.
Thanks for any help and/or advice, this has been really bothering me...

You will be charged but if it is something you don't know you can get a credit for them. After that you can block them.
Or you can do usage controls and set people you want to allow to text you. I think it's so much a month but there's an app bundle that includes it if you like the other apps to make the price worth it. If you only do controls it is $4.99

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