[GNC] Excessive Quote Lookups

Patrick James patrickjames14 at comcast.net
Mon Sep 14 16:21:11 EDT 2026


Bruce Schuck,

I no longer trust you.

I decided to remove Finance Quote, and will never use it again.

Thanks.


> On 09/14/2026 1:08 PM PDT Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> On 2026-09-14 15:10:44 EDT, Patrick James wrote:
> 
> 
> > It the extra personal URL hit that I'm concerned about.
> 
> 
> And that's because?
> 
> 
> No matter what website you visit, yahoo.com, bankofamerica, doordash, 
> etc., etc., etc.; your access is logged. Plus those sites are reading 
> and writing cookies.
> 
> 
> All sorts of juicy tidbits about IPs can also be found in email headers.
> 
> 
> > I wish it were "opt in" rather than "opt out," but now I know how to set
> > it up.
> 
> If that were the case, knowing the audience, keeping statistics would be 
> pretty much useless. The number of F::Q users that would opt-in would be 
> an extremely small sampling. That would make it useless for its intended 
> purpose.
> 
> 
> So, now the webalizer statistics are now only visible to me via password.


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