It is an an IRC bot that returns URLs like so,
<sifu> unruly: Search took 0.364308 seconds: CNN.com - Better search results than Google ? - Jan. 5, 2004: <http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/05/seeing.search1.ap/>; Yahoo Renews With Google , Changes Results: <http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2165081>; Major Search Engines and Directories: <http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156221>; )

I have asked the developers of the bot to change that because mIRC doesnt parse the URLs properly,
They would say that mIRC is broken becuase it violates RFC. RFC 1738, Section 2.2, paragraph 7 , that states < > are to delimit URLs
Quote:
The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the
delimiters around URLs in free text;


Seeing as how before i filed this bug i didnt know that was an actual RFC and was on the side they should change that, I will hold it as a bug and maintain that mIRC is broken because it doesnt follow URL standards correctly.

Last edited by sweede; 05/08/04 05:16 PM.