If you run your own, hardly. If theres a netsplit, it just means you'll have to wait a second until you're connected again. But really, if you run your own IRC

If you run your own, hardly. If theres a netsplit, it just means you'll have to wait a second until you're connected again. But really, if you run your own IRC server in your own internal network, there will be no netsplits.