Expected:
When someone in IRC mentions a slack user, it should show up as a @-mention in slack (so it alerts their client).
Observed:
IRC users do not add @ to the front of names when they mention other users, so the bot should search for user names and prepend @ to them -- at least if the name is the first thing in the message.
Repro
Check out the difference between how these messages show up in slack when sent from IRC:
Jaykul: check this out!
@Jaykul: check this out!
We want them both to show up the same (with the "@" on the front).