Correct, he did.
But typing errors euphemisically accepts the transposition of entire words or phrases, which isn't as narrow as limiting to just a few letters.
As such, while your observation that the original statement hadn't been abbreviated is pendantically true, unfortunately, it isn't value- added.
Your prior highlighting that PoE isn't EOP was noted, for even though it wasn't being a confusion point between Steve & I, it did represent value-added because it is possible that someone in the future might read the archives and become confused. Hopefully that horse is now as dead as this subthread should be.
-hh