Ultimately, what we need to do is take large portions of our database and, using a subscription form and a .txt file subscribe approximately 50,000 people to another autoresponder list we run. The form will subscribe people to a list hosted by aweber.com. The scriptapplication should open the .txt file that holds the names and emails in a comma delimited format and, one file at a time, subscribe each person to the new aweber autoresponder via a browser webform. There needs to be at least a one second delay between each subscription. Done this way, it should take the script about 14 hours to finish subscribing the approximately 50,000 records.
ASP / Perl/CGI / Script Installation / Javascript / Java
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