[Logician]

Yesterday at 03:12 PM spcover said this in Post #3
However, I still really need some help with the INSERT statement and encrypting the password.

You don't need to encrypt the password. Just user their username without encryption in the insert command. Since the vb assumes the password is encrypted, your unencrypted password will be meaningless to vb, so users can't login to their account in anyway without resetting the password.

Mailing users is also easy:
1- Use a "mail" command in your script to mail the users after inserting them to db
2- After the insertion, use vb's email members feature to mail them.
3- Use your yahoo listing to mail them..

You don't need to give them their usernames or passwords just give them the password reset link of your forum and ask them to use their yahoo group emails to retrieve their usernames and passwords.