danny - 8:07 am on Jun 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

So ignore that this has happened to many others in the past year and that GoogleGuy directly stated that you should try to ignore this; and that the issue plagues many complaining here.

Please point me (sticky mail) at any example of a site that has index.html/non-index.html duplication, or at a statement by GoogleGuy that this is a problem.

Believe me, this is not a problem (unlike www/non-www, which certainly could be a problem). Pretty much every site on the web has external links that mix index.html and non index.html URLs.