Here is something that I shouldn't have to say to all sorts of emailproviders but apparently need to:

If someone says that you have spammed them, your first reaction shouldnot be to proclaim that you are a legitimate business (and that youdon't spam and that you have strong policies and so on); your firstreaction should be to profusely apologize and attempt to open a dialogso that you can fix the situation.

There are a number of reasons for this, assuming that you are a

Because I have recently been confusing myself with this, and because itis not clearly documented in the Python standard library or the tutorial(at least not that I could spot):

• .decode() decodes a plain string (ie, bytes in some encoding) toa Unicode string.
• .encode() encodes a Unicode string into a plain string.

Feeding a plain string to the unicode() constructor is the same ascalling .decode() on the string.

Things get weird if you call .encode

Because SPARCs have OpenBoot, forcing Solaris SPARC to panic and do acrash dump is generally a pretty simple process. Because x86 hardwarehas no PROM environment (despite Sun trying to pretend otherwise ), forcing a crash dump on Solaris 10 x86 is alittle bit more intricate.

Crash dumps are done through the kernel debugger, which has to be loadedahead of time from and on the system console. (Technically I think thatyou can load it on a serial connection, should you have one