Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Killing Bounce Receipts

There has been a small but, I think, significant shift in our country: law enforcement agencies and regulators (among others) have increasingly been shooting down bounce receipts. A bounce receipt is a message from my computer to your computer, to which your computer replies, to let me know that you have received my message. You may not even know about your computer's courtesy. OBSERVATION: Everything begins and ends with receipts of some sort. Without receipts, any formal process under the sun can be subverted: "Information? What information?" While bounce recepits are often just a convenience, sometimes they obtain a response where people are (maybe) playing cat and mouse. I don't remember a single bounce receipt being shot down a few years ago. Now, it happens often enough. In other words, bounce receipts are killed before they can bounce. I don't think it is a good sign.

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