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RFC 2810: Internet Relay Chat: Architecture
5.3.3 Server-to-Server
While most messages between servers are distributed to all 'other' servers, this is only required for any message that affects a user, channel or server. Since these are the basic items found in IRC, nearly all messages originating from a server are broadcast to all other connected servers.
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