Thx choi for your understanding
However, the people in the chat were saying that they were getting 'mad' (their words) that I kept entering and not saying anything and then the last time I was told that if I exit again without saying anything, they would be forced to 'ban' me.
mIRC costs $20 usd and I am not prepared to pay that for a program I use will use only for chatting here. That is why I was wondering if there where any other IRC programs that were free that would work.