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Vineyard.NET is slowly transitioning towards a more standards compliant website that separates the look and feel of the site from the content.

This is done using a technology called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Unfortunately, support for CSS in older browsers (specifically, anything prior to a version 5.0) ranges from poor and incomplete to simply wrong and painful for both viewers and designers. Ultimately, there is no way to reliably design a CSS-based layout for older web browsers. Vineyard.NET will continue to ensure the overall functionality of its website for older browsers but the overall experience will be a little more spartan than before.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and invite you to consider upgrading your web browser. For what it's worth, we like Mozilla but just about any modern browser, including Internet Explorer, should suffice.

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Calendars

Vineyard.NET is pleased to announce a new web-base calendar tool, free of charge for its customers, available immediately.

A web based calendar is software that allows you to maintain a calendar of appointments and recurring events using your web browser. You can access your web calendar from home or from any computer connected to the Internet.

You can access your web calendar today at http://www.vineyard.net/webcal

note: The webmail and web calendar program share the same authentication framework. That is, the latter uses the former for logging in to the Vineyard.NET servers and making sure a user is authorized to view the page they've requested. Once your username and password have been verified you will be taken automatically to the web calendar.

related: the Vineyard.NET Web Calendar FAQ

You may have noticed that we have substantially increased the power of ourSPAM filtering software.

My usual first morning email download last weekwas in the neighborhood of 80 messages. This morning I got 12. Obviously, with such a drastic reduction in my mail volume, I will be checking the GrayMail in case something has been filtered that I actually wanted.

SPAM filtering is an opt-in program - meaning that the default is OFF. If you want Vineyard.NET to filter your mail, you must either enable the filters yourself or call the office if you don't think you will be able todo it. It is very easy - a matter of checking a few boxes and clicking on SAVE. You will find your filter settings here :

https://admin.vineyard.net/cgi-bin-admin/anti-junkmail

GrayMail (if you select this option) is part of the WebMail program. To view your GrayMail, go to:

http://www.vineyard.net/webmail

On this page you will see four boxes: username, password, server and language. In the server box you can choose either Vineyard.NET - which is your WebMail orGrayMail - which is where your filtered messages go. Your filtered mail will stay in the GrayMail box for about a week, depending upon your mail volume.

The more mail you have, the shorter period of time it stays in GrayMail.The unexpected result of this much improved filtering is the off and on slow-down of our mail server and occasionally websites. Most agree that getting less SPAM is worth a temporary slower download of mail.

This slowdown is temporary because last week we ordered two very, very large mailservers. We expect those to be delivered shortly and will have them completely online in about two weeks. We will alert you if this changes for any reason.

Thank you for your patience. As always, feel free to call us with any questions.