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FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateur radio licenses
- toomuchtodo 6y ago> The FCC is fully transitioning to electronic correspondence and will no longer print or provide wireless licensees with hard-copy authorizations or registrations by mail. Good stuff, nice to see the FCC modernizing. EDIT: They should fall back to SMS or physical mail notifications if emails bounce.
- 7402 6y agoSigh. The old licenses looked nice.
- gmiller123456 6y ago>They should fall back to SMS or physical mail notifications if emails bounce. You can go to the FCC license database and print it out if you don't receive it for any reason. I got my license back in April, and that's the only way I got a hard copy.
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- dalben 6y agoI find this rather scary - the internet is not a public utility yet it is required for more and more government services.
- aboringusername 6y agoEmails could certainly do with some maturing, both in protocol for security/privacy (yeah, I know...) and in terms of accessibility. I am not sure society is completely ready for a fully digital world just yet; emails, phone numbers, authentication, username, passwords, 2FA codes, biometrics... Gmail should absolutely be taken away from Google's influence and treated as a public utility (free for everyone for life).
- metiscus 6y agoI support the concept of USPS offering email services for official purposes. I don't really support nationalizing Gmail.
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- foxrider 6y agoYes, and the government would not provide you an email address, meaning you are given a choice of either using a "free" email service that would sell your data or paying a premium to a private hoster. I am not even considering self hosting because it's not something an average person could do.
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- dlkinney 6y agoWhile I have objections to internet-based government interaction, access is not one I worry much about. We have government-funded libraries all across the country that provide internet access. While I believe that mail should always be an option, ease of access is something that I think is over-valued when it comes to government. That's not to say that I don't appreciate convenience. Convenience and a broad range of availability are good things. But at the same time, I don't hold the belief that government owes us convenience. So with that said, and excepting arguments of convenience of availability of internet, I think it's hard to make the case that someone may be excluded just because they don't have internet. Used to be some people had to ride half a day on a horse to conduct some government business. To me, that is the baseline, and anything beyond that is a privileged blessing, NOT a necessity. I know this is a very unpopular opinion.
- sergiomattei 6y agoAm I reading this wrong? It says email addresses on radio applications for amateur radio operators? I don’t see anything regarding software.
- darkstar999 6y agoWhat about software? Was the headline changed?
- sergiomattei 6y agoThe old headline was FCC to require email addresses for applications. That was it. Looks like a bunch of commenters didn’t read the article and jumped to conclusions.
- darksaints 6y agoDoes it need to?
- quietriot 6y agoI don't like it. No public comment period on this? The fact that they can cancel your license if the email is undeliverable is the worst aspect of this.
- necheffa 6y agoWhen you register a domain name you have to provide an email and street address. Failure to respond to communication at either of these and you risk the loss of your domain.
- colejohnson66 6y agoDoesn’t the FCC put all licenses available online for free lookup? Domains can have privacy masking depending on the registrar. I recall a retro tech YouTuber I follow getting a HAM radio license (or something) and he gave out his code. I looked it up, and lo and behold, there was his address.
- pdabbadabba 6y ago> No public comment period on this? The public comment period was in 2019: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-electronic-licensing-nprm https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-electronic-licensing...
- loh 6y agoWould it be frowned upon if I use this thread as an excuse to shamelessly advertise TricepMail.com? It's a better approach to catch all email that I've been working on. MVP released last month with polish and feature additions (but not feature creep) still in the works.
- geek_at 6y agoFunny I made an open source project for the exact same thing with API and even RSS access :D https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/opentrashmail https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/opentrashmail
- mtnGoat 6y agoLooks like a cool project, maybe include setup instructions that don't require docker?
- loh 6y agoLooks good! Does the interface organize mail by mailbox? Can you also easily send email from any mailbox? And is there blocking/accepting from specific senders? In TricepMail, messages to e.g. hn@loh.tricepmail.com versus ignore@loh.tricepmail.com are separated in the UI, and you can configure the "ignore" mailbox to block all incoming messages. You can also setup mailboxes that accept messages from specific senders only. TricepMail also has everything (and a bit more) that you've listed under "Web interface". TricepMail isn't meant to be used for trash/throwaways, but you can use it for that if you want. It's meant to compartmentalize real email for the demands of today, especially for things like the FCC requiring email addresses on applications. For example, I would consider incoming email from the FCC to be extremely important (definitely not trash), but I wouldn't want to use my usual personal email address for this. I would still want to see it without going through all the hassle of setting up a separate email server and/or using a separate email client. I want everything in one simple, organized place. This is why I created TricepMail. I've starred your repo. Looking forward to seeing its progress. :)
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoIf I know one valid address, say, reddit@john.tricepmail.com and send to random address N9CN20UQvT@john.tricepmail.com, will it be delivered as legitimate?
- tzs 6y ago> Under new Section 97.23, each license will have to show the grantee's correct name, mailing address, and email address. So mailing address will still be required? Keep in mind that license information in public, so if you use your home address as your mailing address then you will be making it very easy for anyone to tie your email address to your home address. If this matters to you, use a mailing address/email address combination that you do not mind being tied together publicly.
- gmiller123456 6y agoSince the FCC's amateur license database is open to the public, anyone can get my e-mail address, street address, and call sign. If I ever get an e-mail stating it's from the FCC, I'm not opening it. E-mail is not an acceptable form of communication which require any form of authentication or trust.
- hue3 6y agoIdk about U.S. but in my country the government (or any of its subsidiaries) cannot officially contact you via e-mail. It’s either by mail or in-person.
- kaikai 6y agoI’d be delighted if they replaced the mailing address requirement with email. The fact that I need to either pay for a P.O. Box or have my home address and legal name in a public database is ridiculous and dangerous.
- lldbg 6y agoIn my country, the following information is available about each citizen, only a google search away: Name, Personal Number, Address, Convictions, Income (Actually all taxation information), Vehicle ownership. In many cases, pet ownership. Not searchable online, but an email away: All your grades (end of highschool through university). Drawings of your house for surveyor purposes (never had a reason to try this) How differently we view privacy.
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- emailaliases 6y agoemail aliases exist for good reasons. ;-)
- Brian_K_White 6y agoSurely if they require you to have an email address, they are prepared to provide you with one themselves?