bug#4048: 23.1; erc-server-reconnect-attempts does not work

[Vivek Dasmohapatra]

I just tried connecting to localhost with M-x erc (no irc server 
listening there) and I didn't see this behaviour: A few followup questions:

  Is erc-server-connect-function customised?

  Was this an irc connecton which was previously established, whose
  connection was then killed, which erc subsequently kept trying to
  connect to?

  Was this a connection using tls/ssl or a regular plaintext irc connection?

I'm sure the situation you describe can arise, I may have seen something 
similar myself, but merely initiating a connection to a port where no
server is listening does not suffice to reproduce it here - If you can
think of any other details which might help to reproduce this behaviour,
I'd be interested in those too.