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Clipboard weirdness explained
There seems to be some confusion about the existence of more than one general clipboard. There is in fact one general pasteboard (Cocoa term for clipboard), and it can contain more than one representation of the copied information. When you copy something, a program can put several representations of data onto the pasteboard, such as plain text, rich text, etc. When you paste something, a program takes the richest possible representation of the data from the pasteboard. If there aren't any forms that it understands, nothing happens.
Each data representation on the pasteboard is identified by a description. When you copy a message in Mail, it puts two representations onto the general pasteboard, with these descriptions:
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