I find it funny that thorfjalar would say that Joomla does NOT have the mailing feature. Certainly Joomla 1.5 does have this feature.

I'd check out Community Builder as part of Joomla to see all the opportunities it provides. We use it to collect and provide exactly the type of information you talk about. It has a Field Management function in which you can put in as many fields of information as you wish into your collection screen. Very very nice functionality. Worth checking.

Dumarest