help this pops up when i go to use update manager

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From: gary
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:52

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> Could not initialize the package information
> 
> A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
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> Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
> 
> 'E:Type '�deb' is not known on line 70 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.'

Hi all I have no idea what this means but i do not think its a good 
thing and am wondering how i fix it i am not real good

with computer talk so if someone would kindly tell me how to fix it 
would be tops thanks Gary

P.S.sorry my english is poor but that it is a new language to me

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