Read it again.  He did say both "shortcut" and "shorthand"

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zMan
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:31 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote:

> In <fkjpr71k9aqo209gi143h9g9hnuq125...@4ax.com>, on 05/23/2012
>    at 08:54 AM, Clark Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> said:
>
> >On a logical basis I agree with you but has the 24/7/365 shortcut for 
> >continuous availability become so pervasive that it is the shorthand 
> >way for saying it
>
> Shorthand? How is 24/7/365 shorter than 24/7?


It's not. But it's shorter (or at least easier to remember/type/understand for 
most people) than 86400/365 or 31536000.

And he didn't say "shorthand", he said "shortcut".

Are we done now?
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zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"

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