[ANN] Power Manager 3.7.2 - reduce your Mac's carbon footprint

Built in to the OS

- Fast user switch.

OK, finally, something that is not built in to the OS.

And yes, I ignored the request for email copies. This is USENET.

Fast User Switching *IS* built-into Mac OS X. Or have they named it something else?

It isn't?

Where is the setting to automatically schedule a user switch?

You clipped the rest of what was quoted which included the rather informative line:

Power Manager helps you save energy by automating your Mac. You can schedule your Mac to automatically:

And then a list of features

As far as I know, there is no way to schedule your Mac to fast user switch.

How does this differ from spam?

You guys really need to learn how to read with context comprehension.

The stated feature was to *automatically* fast user switch in response to *power events*.

Oops! I didn't trace the thread back far enough to see the automatic part.

It was quoted in the msg you replied to...

;-)

Double oops! Okay, I didn't trace the one post back far enough...

Aw, the hell with it, I'm going to pull an Erik and say that, for me, there's no mention of automatic anywhere.

Which should have been placed in comp.sys.mac.announce.

In most situations, spam is considered unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE). In the case of usenet/nntp, spam can be further refined to posts that are off topic for the group, posts that are overtly commercial without appropriate subjects,

Yes, and .announce groups were set up specifically to provide a place for such things.

My only needs for power management are met by 'restart after power failure'.

It makes the Flying Spaghetti Monster Infant Version cry when you put a computer to sleep.

Well, it was properly tagged as an announcement, and it did in fact appear to be an announcement, so I would not classify it as spam since csm.announce last had a post in about 1642.

As for the reply, well, I did fire off a snarky post, and he certainly has the right to reply.

That words not even in your dictionary, right? Just a blank spot?

D

He stayed around and replied to questions, and it was on-topic. Technically you might be right, I don't know, but I think it was a fair enough post, considering the real spam and the trolls. And it wasn't just mindless marketing speak.

Andy

And that was only a crossposted rant about how the roundheads were going to get their asses kicked.

Exactly. They are were people /do/ expect to see such information, so it makes more sense to put it there eh?

Time to add [ANN] prefixed subjects to your Usenet reader's kill file?

Nope. Time to use appropriate vehicles for advertising software and hardware products for the Mac. :-)

If someone asks a question about your product, it's cool to answer, you see this often, but it's good form to indicate that you are involved directly in the product so people don't accidentally think it's an unbiased opinion.

Absotively.