Using the Filter
This is actually very easy to use -- just type in a search phrase and click the 'Filter' button. The built-in search feature will comb through your subscriber list and return all entries that match your search phrase. The phrase can be any part of the email address. For example, searching on '.com' will bring up results containing all the subscribers who have a .com suffix to their email address. This has a variety of uses, a few of which are finding particular subscribers in a long list (though the list is automatically alphabetized) and keeping tabs on how many subscribers are from a particular domain (hotmail.com for example).
Automatic Signup
In many situations you will want your subscribers to be able to sign up automatically. This is easy enough with Radbot. The process uses a phrase of HTML, which is included below. Be sure to customize the details for your website. Note: if you are familiar with forms you can implement your own version of this code.
<form method=post action="/cgi-bin/radbot/controls.cgi">
<B>Sign Up for the GMD Studios Newsletter</B><BR>
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="Remote_Subscribe">
<input type=hidden name="duration" value="default">
<input type=hidden name="response_url" value="http://www.gmdstudios.com/newsletter_thanks.html">
<input type=text name=email size=20>
<input type=submit value="Sign Up"><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-2>enter your email address above and press the "Sign Up" button</FONT>
</form>
Line 1 here states that this is a form and gives the location of the RadBot controls.cgi script. When the user clicks the submit button, the information they have entered is sent to that script to be processed.
Line 2 is text that, in this case, appears above the data entry box.
Line 3 tells the RadBot controls.cgi script that you are doing a "Remote Subscription" and that the following address should be added to the subscriber list.
Line 4 sets the expire date for this subscriber. Here the script is told to use the default date.
Line 5 is the location of the web page that the user gets after clicking on the submit button.
Line 6 is the text entry box for entering the email address.
Line 7 is the submit button that the user clicks on to send the information they have entered.
Line 8 is the text that will appear underneath the data entry box. In this case given a specific font size.
You can see this example in action at the bottom of:
http://www.gmdstudios.com/
