Re: Re: difference between mrc and irc
  By: fusion to candycane on Wed Jul 26 2023 09:50 am

 > iirc MRC sends all the private messages to absolutely everyone and the clien
 > decides to show them or not. so a custom client could just watch everything
 > everyone says.

That is no longer the case, as far as I know. There have been some significant
updates and changes to MRC.

To answer the original question. MRC is for BBS-to-BBS chat, specifically.
There is a bridge to an IRC server, but that's the extent of its connection to
it. IRC is for chatting over the internet in general, with different IRC
servers connected together (or not) making different IRC networks. Sort of a
de-centralized kind of thing. With MRC, it may seem decentralized with the
BBSes as "servers", but they have to connect to a main server and you can't
make different "networks" of BBSes.

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