>>Mike-
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>>>I'm working with another person on some SQL. We're chatting in IM. I want to show him a query extracted from a method. I copy from the method and paste into IM, but IM truncates it.
>>>
>>>Stopping to make a file in notepad and then telling IM to send that file is a pain.
>>>
>>>Can anyone suggest a way to automate this more?
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>>Use ICQ accounts, and use Trillian for your IM client. Trillian will let you integrate different instant messaging clients including ICQ, MSN (which I presume you mean by IM) and Yahoo!
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>I just heard today that Yahoo is cutting Trillian (among others) from connecting to their IM. It may have even been on the UT main page.

The makers of Trillian (Cerulean Studios) posted a new release within about 4 hours of Yahoo's evil actions. The two of them have gone at this before...Yahoo keeps making changes...then a couple of hours later Cerulean Studios has found a way back in. The Yahoo spokeswoman says it's to keep the spim (IM version of spam) down...but of course there is no spim problem on yahoo messenger to begin with - its just that Yahoo wants people using their CPU/Memory-eatting banner-ad-filled client so more people see their stupid advertisements. Anyway over the next week or so Yahoo will update their protocol, then Cerulean Studios will make the necessary adjustments to Trillian - this will last a week or two then Yahoo will quit messing with it until the next time they feel like beating up on the little guys.