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Re:Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers? by albertgoeswoof on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:33PM (#28504125)
What would be the abuse issues from open peering? How were we able to solve them for email, but not IRC?
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Re:Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers? by nickelpro on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:44PM (#28504226)
We didn't, email spam exists to this day. The solution has been to ban entire swaths of domains and even IP ranges by chucking all mail from them into spam folders
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Re:Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers? by Doxin on Monday September 13, 2021 @03:03AM (#28508621)
The problem is mainly that on IRC messages coming from a server connection are assumed to never be lies. A server can do anything from disconnecting people to spoofing messages.

Which is in fact how services such as nickserv operate. If I don't log in to nickserv, nickserv will spoof a nickname change, blocking me from using the registered nickname.

Having server connections be freely available to everyone is worse than giving everyone OPER powers.

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