He also turned around a defense theme -- "don't trust the messenger" -- and said it was the defense who were not to be trusted.

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Just don't shoot the messenger.

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It doesn't mean that Facebook and Blackberry Messenger have caused the drop in crime, but I do wonder whether the two may be linked.

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It was a tricky maneuver, and it didn't help that during its approach Messenger had to lose radio contact with mission control while it flew behind the planet.

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For instance, you can't directly send an instant message to BlackBerry Messenger from Google Talk.

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Some players who spoke to CNN.com said they have traveled for a league draft, but said that often the players who couldn't make it would send picks by online messenger or call on their cell phones.

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That means millions of AOL users can't chat online with the folks on Yahoo Instant Messenger or MSN Messenger, and vice versa.

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Other IM programs don't require that--users of AOL Instant Messenger, for instance, might have a totally different IM name than their e-mail address, or might not even have an AOL account at all.

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But it's a basic rule of politics: If you can't disprove the message, you try to discredit the messenger.

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