I hate spam. Whether it is PORN spam, or Lender spam.
I have been fighting MRIS for literally 4 years! Yes, 4 years. Why? Because how they handle the member email addresses.
I do not feel they are doing everything possible (or much for that matter) to reduce the amount of spam that we get as a direct result of giving them our email address.
When you give your email address to MRIS under the title "public email" you might think that this is just for Realtor logging into Matrix, so they can contact you about a specific listing.
Well if that is what you thought. You are dead wrong.
That email address is being distributed via a RETS feed to dozens, if not hundreds of "partners." Partners like HomeVisit (we had an issue in 2006 with them spamming my MRIS email address) and others that take the MRIS feed and spam all the members (see example below). One MRIS partner company even leaked (yes I call it a leak) all 20,000+ email addresses for spam crawlers to have a field day (a spam crawler is a software that will go to thousands of websites and cultivate email addresses to spam you, and sell your email addresses to porno websites).
Test out what I am saying! How?
1) Create a temporary email address. Try GivenToMRIS@YourDomain.com or even Yourname2@yourdomain.com
2) Then have that email address forward to your regular email address.
3) Then sit back and wait.
Once you start getting spam to the "GiventoMRIs@YourDomain.com" then you know that it was a direct result of giving your email to MRIS. (forward it to me)
I have been suggesting for years now (and I actually thought they agreed 2 years ago, but I appear to be wrong) that they REMOVE the email addresses from the RETS feed.
Spam is crippling inboxes, and no spam filters aren't good enough. They trash $1Million clients and still require time to review the spam folders.
Does anybody else get spam? Do you know where it comes from? Will you change your MRIS email address, so I'm not the only one reporting my frustration with spam that results from entering in MRIS my "public email."
Note how ActiveRain does not publish emails. Why? ACTIVERAIN UNDERSTANDS TECHNOLOGY. They use webforms that spiders can't see the email addresses!!
I really wish MRIS would be less defensive, and instead try to work with those that are technologically inclined and try to find solutions that would better their members.
Frank
Broker FranklyRealty.com
Owner RealtorSpam.org
Here is an example of a spam that came to my MRIS only "public" email address. It is from
Salina Crismond She is selling CE credits. I have asked her 3 times to stop. Here are 2 of the 3 spams
Salina.Crismond@prudentialcarruthers.com
Prudential Carruthers REALTORS®
She does not reply to requests for removal.
ps. I also wish NVAR, the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors would use their influence on MRIS to get them to listen to their members. Perhaps starting back up the technology group (why was that dismantled?). Or putting some techy people on an advisory board for things like this. MRIS won't listen to me, but they would listen to NVAR.
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