Yeah, I've seen all of that information before, it's all been posted before at one point or another. The RFCs have been illustrated with obsessive care and attention, and Khaled has been made aware of the issue.
As far as I remember some changes were made in recent versions to improve the "logic" behind mIRC's hotlink interpretation (don't quote me though), so maybe more changes will be made in the future.
Regards,
