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The reason for AOL's action was easy to understand: you became the email of record of the spam! You should already know that most of the "return" addresses are hijacked accounts; that most of the senders listed were not the ones seing the mail. In effect, what you did was to spam those innocent folks whose emails were used in the first instance.

In response to an earlier comment about e-mail and advertising, that issue is easily resolved. Use a fee-paying account instead of a free, advertising-based account. Isn't that the best solution if you prefer not to see advertising in exchange for using a free service?