Hi Mark,
You'll need someone with database expertise that can import the data.
There is some code in our source code repository contributed by Stave Railsback of Colorado State U for importing. This will be available in the next release but it requires first formatting your data into a specific comma delimited format, it won't work with arbitrary data formats or files.
So either way some developer help is needed to either import from whatever format your data is directly into the database or else to format your data into something that matches what Steve implemented. Both are about equal in complexity in my opinion, but the second solution is only available after the next release so I'd say you are better off hiring a developer to figure out how to import your data. The relavent table is mp_LetterSubscribe
Hope that helps,
Joe