Reply #12: If you were shut down due to alleged complaints and you know

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you did nothing anyone should be complaining about, it is likely you've been spoofed. Through various schemes, someone dopes out your email addy and then sends spam or worse to other people's mailboxes, using your address as their return, it is not unexpected that someone would complain to your ISP.

  This has happened to me a few times and the only way I knew what was happening was that I got a mailer daemon back advising me of the undeliverability of a message I never sent. As long as the message-whatever it was-shows up as undeliverable, no problem, other than the obvious discomfort with having my private mail invaded and used for unknown but certainly nefarious purposes.

However, if I get three or four notifications back that the message I didn't send couldn't be delivered, I wonder how many thousands or millions of copies of that message actually did get delivered. This kind of behavior is unconscionable and should be subject to far higher penalties than the few I've seen handed down, but first you gotta catch 'em and then you gotta prosecute them, in front of a judge and jury who, most likely, don't view the matte as very serious or have no real idea what all the fuss is about.