We need more information to know what's happening.
You say the MTA log shows only one delivery for, e.g., F2BEEE9318, to /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces NAME-OF-HUGE-LIST yet strings on the bounce event file finds F2BEEE9318 a total of 3929 times. Can you examine the bounce-events-ppppp.pck file with Mailman's bin/dumpdb and see what the actual bounce messages are and where they all come from?
We need more information to know what's happening.
You say the MTA log shows only one delivery for, e.g., F2BEEE9318, to /usr/lib/ mailman/ mail/mailman bounces NAME-OF-HUGE-LIST yet strings on the bounce event file finds F2BEEE9318 a total of 3929 times. Can you examine the bounce- events- ppppp.pck file with Mailman's bin/dumpdb and see what the actual bounce messages are and where they all come from?