Web Subscription

Web Based Subscription allows visitors to your web site to join your list quickly and easily without using email to subscribe, confirm or unsubscribe. Using Web Based Subscription also allows you to gather additional information about your subscribers.

For example, let's say you'd like to know the gender and zip code of everyone who signs up for your newsletter. The Web Based Subscription scripts allows you to add fields which will write that data to your database. You'll then be able to use subsets to send to all of your male list members who live in zip code 94704, if you like. Or, use this information to create custom content for those members.

The primary subscsribe, confirm, and unsubscribe scripts make it easy for members to manage their membership via a web form instead of via e-mail.

 For example, potential members of your newsletter list would go to

  http://www.yourserver.dom/signup.html

where there is a form to join your "newsletter" list. They click "submit", and they receive an email confirmation with a URL like this one:

http://www.yourserver.dom/cgi-bin/confirm.pl?id=1234X

This link loads a web page that tells the user what list they are confirming to, and gives them a button to press to confirm their membership. The button submits a form that sends the data to the primary script which then handles the confirmation. Once they've clicked on this URL, they will have joined your list.

In the confirmation email or in a regular posting, you may provide your members with this URL, which will allow them to unsubscribe at any time:
 

 http://www.yourserver.dom/cgi-bin/unsub.pl?id=%%memberidchar%%

These web pages are generated by three scripts: sub.pl, confirm.pl and unsub.pl. An optional fourth script, wizard.pl, helps you to make a web form quickly and easily. A fifth script, do-user-action.pl handles the functionality of the others, and does not need to be edited. They are all included in your ListManager installation in the Scripts directory.

Important Note:

In order to use these scripts, you'll need to put them in your web server's cgi-bin or scripts directory.

More:

Using Wizard.pl to Create a Web Subscribe Form

Using Sub.pl to Create a Web Subscribe Form

Using Confirm.pl to Confirm Members

Using Unsub.pl to Unsubscribe Members