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The correct name servers should have been DNS.EWR1.NYTIMES.COM and DNS.SEA1.NYTIMES.COM.

How does this work? How would you get to DNS.EWR1.NYTIMES.COM without first knowing where nytimes.com is?

LaTeX based chat 17 years ago

Maple will take input like

  y=int(x^2,x=0..100) 
and turn it into pretty print. That seems more natural than LaTeX. LaTeX is for getting exactly what you want on paper, at the expense of ease of typing.

Is there a standard format for storing email? I would like to archive all my mail using Gmail's IMAP feature, but what happens when I want to find something in 30 years? For example, I'd think that an Outlook data file would not be a good choice.