Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ

[Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

Honestly, sometimes I include the "Three-Hundred Sixty-Five and a Quarter” on conference calls.

Side note: What you describe is in-fact part of how languages change and evolve.  (over time, sufficiently common 
incorrect use becomes. well. correct.)

-Ben Cannon
CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
ben () 6by7 net <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>




> On Apr 16, 2020, at 3:07 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) <lists () packetflux com> wrote:
>
> Sorry I can't resist...
>
> If you're going for accuracy, does 24x365 mean you close one day this year?   Or should you actually be saying 
> 24x365.25, or even more accurately 24x365.2425 (but still not exact).
>
> Oh wait, we missed the leap seconds in there, which there isn't any real way to average out since they occur at 
> semi-random intervals.    So I don't know what we should adjust the 24 to...
>
> I just look at 24x7x365 as shorthand for "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year", which is a common saying 
> meaning always open.   It isn't a mathematical formula.   It doesn't have to be exact or make mathematical sense.  
>
> There are lots of things that if you think about too hard they don't make sense.  The one this week I thought about 
> was "hunger benefit".   Does that mean we're raising money to increase hunger?  One could go on and on trying to 
> correct logical inconsistencies in our use of language.   It's fun on occasion to point them out, but saying that 
> something has to be corrected just because it doesn't make logical or mathematical sense just seems as sill as some 
> of the phrases that we laugh about being logically inconsistent.
>
>
>
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:35 AM Owen DeLong <owen () delong com <mailto:owen () delong com>> wrote:
> 24x7 is way more common, but does leave ambiguity as to holiday coverage. (there are some 24x7 businesses that close 
> for holidays).
>
> 24x7x365 is on the rise as a way to specify that you’re open holidays too.
>
> End of the day, I’m not sure it matters which one you use.
>
> Likely any Google search for 24x7 would return the superset {24x7,24x7x365} while a search for 24x7x365 would return 
> the subset {24x7x365}.
>
> IANASEOE, but I suspect that in terms of SEO and general search, you’re probably better off with 24x7x365.
>
> Owen
>
>
> > On Apr 16, 2020, at 01:25 , Mike Hale <eyeronic.design () gmail com <mailto:eyeronic.design () gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> > No.  24x7x365 is fine.  Sheesh.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 10:10 PM Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>> wrote:
> > So I’m taking this thread for a total test-drive and we’re going down this random ally...
> >
> > I call our NOC “24x7x365”  I hear that in my head as “twenty-four (hour) - BY - Seven (days a week) - BY - 365 (days 
> > a year, indicating we don’t close on any holidays).
> >
> > Is that really not a thing?  I swear I’ve been hearing it as a term of art in the industry for 20 years.    Google 
> > has 1.42m results for 24x7x365 - but 72mil for 24x7.
> >
> > Should I change my website or what?
> >
> > Thanks for indulging me :)
> >
> > -Ben.
> >
> >
> > -Ben Cannon
> > CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
> > ben () 6by7 net <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Apr 15, 2020, at 5:45 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org <mailto:rsk () gsp org>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Your home page says that you have 24x7x365 support.
> > >
> > >     (Which is wrong, by the way.  It's either 24x7 or 24x365
> > >     or maybe 24x7x52 depending on what you're trying to express.
> > >     There is no such thing as 24x7x365.  But let's press on:)
> >
> > (Rich’s excellent critique deleted for brevity)
> > > ---rsk
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>
> -- 
> - Forrest