An article of manufacture comprising a program storage medium having computer readable code embodied therein is disclosed. The computer readable code is configured to enable selective discarding of messages received at a receiving device coupled to a telecommunication network. There is included code for ascertaining whether a type associated with a received message at the receiving device is one of protected message types. There is further included code for passing, if the type associated with the received message is the one of the protected message types, the received message to an application irrespective of an age of the received message, the age being representative of a time duration that the message has been present in the receiving device.