Your are right. As Charles Bennet or Bob Bell pointed out, most modern 
systems power down some of the components after periods of idle time. 
Sometimes, these requests that come down from some management or 
IT departments are rather amusing. They do not take into consideration 
that people forget. 

On 23 Jun 2000, at 13:15, Suzanne Hillman wrote:

> Wouldn't just turning off the monitors count for most of that power
> useage? That's not exactly difficult, and doesn't require one to wait for
> reboot in the morning.
> 
> Or am I mislead about believing that most power usage w/workstations is
> the monitor?
> 
> Suzanne
> 
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