| 2009-11-16 10:43:13 EST | The webmail service is now fully functionnal. |
| 2009-11-15 14:12:56 EST | Some of our members are currently experiencing stability issues while using our email relay server. We expect this service to be restored to full capacity in the following hours. |
| 2009-11-13 09:00:03 EST | The VoIP phone maintenance was completed as of last morning, November 12. |
| 2009-11-06 12:07:24 EST | Some of our users could experience certain issues with our VoIP phone service due to ongoing maintenance operations. We are trying to reduce any possible inconvenients as much as we can and to resolve this situation as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding. |
| 2009-10-22 13:29:56 EDT | The aforementionned VoIP issues were resolved during the evening of October 8. |
| 2009-10-08 11:10:30 EDT | Since monday October 5 we have encountered intermittent issues with VoIP (sip1.vif.com). We are currently working with our VoiP solution's development team to fix the issues as soon as possible. |
| 2008-11-06 20:07:46 EST | paid NNTP servers, see this page: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/14514 As far as we know, very few ISPs now continue free news server support for one reason or another. Those we are aware of either use half-functional caches or they have download limits specific to the news server. |
| 2008-11-06 20:02:31 EST | VIF Internet has taken the decision to stop support on the NNTP/News/Usenet server. While the server will continue being functional, it is now low priority in terms of updates and repairs, and could become intermittent or shut off completely for undetermined periods. The usenet service has always been an additional "added-value" service, not an essential part of an Internet access account. NNTP is an old technology that is kept by some providers for backwards compatibility, but it's now largely replaced by P2P systems such as eMule, LimeWire or Bittorrent for binary files, or on forums for text files. Today with Google Groups it's even easier for a provider to stop maintaining a specific usenet machine for a few users, since most groups are available through that service for free, and are searchable. Alternatively, some paid NNTP servers such as giganews.com, easynews.com, etc. provide unlimited, unfeathered and extremely solid access to the usenet. For a list of popular |
| 2008-07-29 07:20:41 EDT | An update is being done on our VoIP server (portaone.vif.com), this should take no more than 2 hours. |
| 2008-07-22 10:06:42 EDT | IMPORTANT: If you receive any email purporting to be from VIF indicating that we need your password, <b>DO NOT REPLY TO IT</b>, these messages are fraudulent attempts at getting access to your mailbox! |
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