I realize this may not be the best place to ask this question, but I need some ideas.

I've written a VB6 program that I think will be useful to a large group of people. One way I know to distribute it is to place the installation files in a folder on my Google Drive, share that folder with anyone who has the link, and then share that link with the people who might be interested in my program. However, that really doesn't offer me any degree of control over the process because anyone can then take that link and download the files.

Alternatively, I can ask people to send me their Gmail address, and then I can manually share that Google Drive folder with that specific address. That would be great except for the fact that it requires manual intervention on my part, and therefore someone who wants the program will have to email me and wait for a reply, which could obviously take up to 24 hours.

So what a really want is to publicly share my installation folder, but *require* that a user downloading it automatically log their email address so that I can know *who* downloaded it and later email those people when updates become available. And, preferably, I'd like a way to do this at little or no cost to me!

Any ideas? Or can you suggest a better place where I can post my question?
Thank you!