our most vital need

We need an email verification program to validate new users before they're accepted. We should be emailing them passwords and their accounts should become active till they log in with their password that has been emailed to them. And we need to have a questionaire that is user definable that new users have to fill in. The results of the questionaire would be kept in a tab delimited file which could easily be converted to a database. Without a tool like this, we will never get a grip on our user community and it will remain basically an anonymous group. I hope that this can be incorporated into the next build of Yapp. The new account questionaire should run on both the unix shell and on the web. This is our single most vital need.