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Re: message of wwwcountconfig



On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:19:22PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

> I thought that "you don't care to show something" meant roughly 
> "you agree to show something" so the above sentence seems
> rather meaningless to me; that is, the assumptions "If you are 
> concerned with privacy" and "or simply don't care to show error 
> messages to browsers" are contradicting, as I understand.

No - "I don't care to <whatever>" means that the speaker doesn't want to
do whatever.  The idea in the above is therefore more like "If you're 
worried about privacy or just don't want to show error messages.".

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Mark Brown  mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk   (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
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