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On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:32:24PM -0700, John Webster wrote:
> Why can't the indexing process just ignore problem
> entries? (Identify them and then ignore them.)

Because you would get a broken index.

Search the archives for more discussion of your particular error.

Kris

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