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I am trying to build a simple module to use with Vertical Response.  I need the module to perform two simple tasks.  Add a contact to the civi database and send information to VR newsletter database.  I have been trying to use their simple opt-in form that performs a simple post to post to their site.  But I am having troubles grabbing the post info and using the civi api to add a contact.

Here is their simple opt in form  first, last, email
<form method="post" action="http://oi.vresp.com?fid=b0a4e83168" target="vr_optin_popup" onsubmit="window.open( 'http://www.verticalresponse.com', 'vr_optin_popup', 'scrollbars=yes,width=600,height=450' ); return true;" >

  <div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; width: 160px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #000000; background: #dddddd;">
    <strong><span style="color: #333333;">Sign Up Today!</span></strong>
    <p style="text-align: right; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="color: #f00;">* </span><span style="color: #333333">required</span></p>
    <label style="color: #333333;">Email Address:</label>    <span style="color: #f00">* </span>
    <br/>
    <input name="email_address" size="15" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; border: 1px solid #999; padding: 3px;"/>
    <br/>
    <label style="color: #333333;">First Name:</label>
    <br/>
    <input name="first_name" size="15" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; border: 1px solid #999; padding: 3px;"/>
    <br/>
    <label style="color: #333333;">Last Name:</label>
    <br/>
    <input name="last_name" size="15" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; border: 1px solid #999; padding: 3px;"/>
    <br/>
    <input type="submit" value="Join Now" style="margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #999; padding: 3px;"/><br/>
    <br/><span style="color: #333333"><a title="Newsletter by VerticalResponse" href="http://www.verticalresponse.com">Newsletter</a> by VerticalResponse</span>
  </div>
</form>

I tried just adding the simple civi contact create at the bottom but I don't know how to pull the variables or call the function when the form is submitted. 

Any ideas? Thanks

Yes, our recipients are getting them put into their junk mail quite regularly.  It is a college university that has extreme spam rules set on their servers.  So we are having to revert to using an outside company like Vertical response that allows up to 10,000 free emails / month.
 Any ideas on integration?