That seems a little noisy and doesn't resolve the real problem, which is that tell behaviour is just dumb and inconsistent with the rest of Phenny's interface. We probably should just fix the stupidity of tell s.t. the syntax is more like:

<paulwalko> .tell echarlie fix that bug on phenny
<Phenny> Okay; I'll tell echarlie "fix that bug on phenny"
--> echarlie has joined #fakechannel
<Phenny> echarlie: you have messages
<echarlie> .pop 1
<Phenny> Pop 1 message: echarlie: fix that bug on phenny -- paulwalko

or somesuch. Perhaps make .open equivalent to .pop @ (open all messages). I guess we could make it a queue instead of a stack.

So, while I agree that users might be confused as to how they read their messages, what I've usually seen happen is that people ask "how do I check my messages?" at which point phenny responds with their messages. So while it might be unclear initially, users can quickly figure it out; I'm not convinced any changes are necessary.

@echarlie I strongly disagree, that's going to horribly confuse people.