Eric, I haven't heard of POE, but I think that might work. I checked out poe.perl.org, but I'm still not sure how I would code this (or what classes I would need, there seem to be a lot).

Also, I was wondering which you thought would be less server intensive. Running one POE perl script all the time, or using cron to call the scripts only when I want it?

Would it be better to just include my other script as a subroutine that returns the HTML I wish to send and the AOL username I wish to send it to?

Thanks!