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By Adam Gaffin
Network World Fusion 03/30/04

Surely there's a name for this situation:

You cut some text from one application and hit the buttons to paste it into another, only it winds up in an instant-message window because at that exact moment one of your IM buddies has sent you a message and you, distracted by the keyboard and with your sound off, didn't notice the window popping up.

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How about "Pasteus Interruptus"

Posted by: Keith on March 30, 2004 10:31 AM

I call it "instant messing"

Posted by: Andy Laing on April 3, 2004 06:00 AM

Its called having the wrong instant messaging client. I use Miranda (http://www.miranda-im.org/) and the default is that nobody remotely can popup a window in the middle of your desktop without your permission.

Posted by: hey on April 3, 2004 11:48 AM

"Copy-chatting"

Posted by: The Angry Mick on April 5, 2004 03:15 PM

I refer to it as "Premature pastification", or "pp" for short. As in, "I was copying this nfusion url to my notes but I pp'd instead."

Posted by: Doug McKeown on April 12, 2004 05:25 PM

I'd call it Quantum Information Messaging (QIM).

Posted by: jwj on May 4, 2004 02:22 PM

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