I have found a couple scripts for this job but they all say link to perl ? Can anyone explain to me what perl is and how i link to it ?
Perl, just like PHP, is a scripting language, probably even more of a programming language than a scripting language. Use PHPList http://tincan.co.uk/phplist if you don't fancy adding another language to your repetoire.
Perl is a programming lanuage, which may take a while to learn, but the benifits from what you'll find out will be better. I'd actually advise you to learn PHP and not PERL first though - just my oppinion. PHP tutorials that you'll find useful if you decided to learn it. You can then learn about MySQL, which is a type of database. Once you've learnt those, you'll be able to put the user's email address into the database. ^^;; Edit: You beat me to it, T0PS3O xP Edit: By four minutes!? Maybe that's the time of the edit...