Firstly, please don't slate me for asking about mIrc. I know everyone here is an expert at it, and I'm still in the primordial mIrc soup, and everyone keeps ranting on about how great it is. I do use mIrc on a regular basis, but only by using www.packetnews.com as a search engine.

What I'm looking for is a guide on how to use Irc. Not your normal, 'Oh, just do this, this, and this, and viola' guide, as we see all the time, but a complete retard's guide. I need it on the level of 'press this button, followed by typing this here'. I find that most guides at the moment already assume that you know how to use Irc to a basic extent, but I don't, if you'll excuse me [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img].

I could also do with stuff like how to call up file listings and whatnot, basic Irc rules, and some sort of glossary of terms, as I have no idea what 'Don't pm the ops for xdcc lists' and suchlike mean. I've been banned from an anime channel before, for reasons unknown to me. I say 'unknown' because I'd never tried to log onto said channel. Ever. Some German channel - AnimeDe or something.

Can anyone please help me out on how to get onto channel 'x' (AnimeOne and GotWoot would be a good start, but if you can keep the guide generic, that'd be great). Thanks loads for any help.


PS. Please don't slate me [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]. I'm not computer illiterate (I'm doing a BSc in VR at Uni), I'm just hopeless with Irc, as no-one's ever taught me how to use it (most channels state 'no newbies' - so how are we supposed to learn?). Remember - we were all beginners once [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img].