I was once in a meeting where somebody not in the meeting sent an IM to the person sharing his desktop, that disparaged one of the other meeting participants.

我曾在参与的一个会议中看到，某个没有参会的人向共享桌面的人发送了一条即时信息，其中对某个参加会议的人有不敬之词。

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Do you have an IM account?

可以给我你的即时通讯帐号吗？

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It's like a single line of an IM conversation.

它就像IM会话中的一行内容。

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They might point out that email-compatible systems like PGP provide a much better proof of identity than an IM handle.

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