[OTR-users] Indication of private session

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Mitch Claborn wrote:

> When a session is private, it seems like that is indicated by <anglebrackets>
> around the other party's name.  After a few minutes of inactivity, it seems
> like the angle brackets go away, but the other person reports that the session
> still appears private to them.
>
> Am I right in thinking that the brackets indicate a private session?  Is my
> session really becoming un-private again or is something else going on?

It might be "idle" notification. idleness get confused by the "auto reply"
from OTR when it initiates a message. Your remote buddy "answers", but is
not really there, so he will idle out again.

Paul