It's not like you have to go digging for the search page, if he managed to look down the page to see 'mIRC Help' he could have just as easily looked up and saw 'Search'. And maybe if he is new to ANY forum, but if it is just this one, every mailing list, or forum, and some newsgroups, I've ever went to always had a policy of check the archives before asking a question that was already asked.