As mailman-owner I get a large number of bounces every month from password reminder messages with Mailman 1.1. The vast majority of these are for people whose subscription state has already been set to nomail. Is there already an automated way of dealing with these?
If not...
Would it be reasonable to set an (optional?) age limit for how long someone could be in the "nomail" state and still be "subscribed"? The mailpasswords cron job could "age" them and eventually delete them. The only drawback I've thought of is that it would periodically unsubscribe people that had subscribed just to check archives or mailing list membership (which may not be a bad thing :-). (Or visiting the web page resets their aging?)
The alternative would seem to be to process the bounces from the reminders and (after a couple) remove the subscriber.
Jim
-- Jim Tittsler, Tokyo Python Starship http://starship.python.net/crew/jwt/