#3969 Paragraph wrapped around web bug?

[a.h.s. boy]

In the Slashdot RSS feed, each article contains a web bug (e.g. "http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=zIYvdM"), which is fine if you're into web bugs, but the problem is that the img is wrapped in an A tag, which itself is wrapped in a P tag.

Consequently, any parser that generates an HTML page from the RSS feed (and has any reasonable formatting for P tags) creates a giant gap at the end of each article summary.

Would it be possible to remove the totally extraneous P tag around the web bug, and just leave it at the end of the article? (And what's the point in having the A tag around a 1x1 pixel gif anyway? The link points to a page that simply generates a 410 response code, so it seems rather pointless).

spud.