by Usman Khawaja on Tue May 13, 2003 6:28 am
Hi
Many thanks for contacting Adiscon Support.
What i get from your query is that you want a form which will be filled out by the users to get subscribed to a particular newsLetter. For this there are auto methods in NewsMerge which provide the service of getting subscriptions.
Auto Subscription.
Auto Subscription enables you to automatically import new subscribers and subscriptions. Of course, you can manage this information manually (including the ability to add any missing information). If you are heading towards a large number of subscribers, you will probably prefer doing it automatically.
NewsMerge includes HTML pages both for UNIX and Windows web servers. These enable your web site to gather the data directly from your subscribers. These pages generate administrative mail messages. Then, NewsMerge’s auto-management features can read these mails and act on them accordingly. As such, full automatic subscription management is possible.
Automatic Subscription Management
Automatic Subscription Management bases on email. NewsMerge is able to accept so-called list management mails. With these messages, new subscribers and subscriptions can be created. NewsMerge accept a simple format to detect the actions it needs to carry out.
List management mails can be created from either a program or an individual. NewsMerge’s sample web pages base on the email mechanism. They generate list management mails based on the user web input. As the mail format is very easy to understand, people can also use manually created list management mails to manage their subscription settings. This is a great way to gain new subscribers with forwarded messages. We highly recommend adding a note about how to subscribe to all of your issues.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of any further assistance.
Best Regards
Usman Khawaja
Adiscon