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Re:Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers? by unilynx on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:43PM (#28503172)
It was never open to attach your server to a network, unlike email. A server connection was way too powerful for that. You needed an existing server admin to allow your server to connect.
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Re:Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers? by ghancock on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:09PM (#28503397)
I wasn’t there but I have seen multiple histories say that there were servers that accepted connections from anyone (most famously eris.berkeley.edu but not only that one). For example, https://about.psyc.eu/IRC
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