Thanks bill...

>   SELECT * from table WHERE adweight >= 3

would have been good except that adweight is determined at index time via
some wacky complicated algorithm.

> Search for all documents that do NOT have a word that you know exists in
> NONE of the documents.
>
> In other words, if you search for a word that returns no results,
> then searching for "not" that word should return all documents.

this worked great. thanks,

Brad
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