Well, whatever you feel appropriate. Personally, putting these two resources into a reply was little to no effort. Not everyone is as comfortable with Google as you or I seem to be and if someone is new to Perl they may not be aware of the mod_perl site. Pointing it out to them is beneficial to both them and the rest of PM, because a lot of questions that would otherwise have ended up here can be answered by reading that site.

I'm not saying you're wrong and I might react the same way on a different day, but we do aim to provide a newbie-friendly face to PM (I think), which sometimes means giving answers to imperfect questions.