Jon,
I ended up using the mailman lists and it works fine. You just have to Mass Subscribe the emails from the vb users copy/paste it into the mailman list area an select to "Offer to subscrbe" or just "subscribe automatically" and theyre in..
Here's the link, becareful there are too of them and it's got to be lower case..
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html
It's free and is a seperate program from vb, but it works so well you can't really tell the difference.. I'd recommend it...
Hope that helps..