🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello all,

Recently, I was looking into what services are offered by different ISPs, and
I was wondering if maybe I can get some insight from other netters.

The questions is, which ISPs are still offering some of the more advanced
services, and how many ISPs exist that can provide power-user access to the
internet anymore?  With many local ISPs being bought out by larger companies,
will these services be lost??

Here are some of the diminishing services (if you know of ISPs in 613 that
still offer these, let me know):

shell access:  My ISP has finally given back access to the C compiler, but
  how much base shell access is soon going to disappear?  I hate to get the
  answer that with PPP you can do it all from home - some of us still use
  old tech and like it!

virtual domains:  Are their any ISPs that will allow you to - for a resonable
  fee - give you a specific dynamic IP every time you connect with PPP

ftp:  I run an ezine and need someplace to put it up for anonymous ftp.  Why
  doesn't anybody offer this anymore?  My ISP's reason was that it was a
  security problem, and that I can put files on the net in my homepage
  directory - so where is the security problem if I already can post files
  in my public_html directory??

mailing lists:  Are there any ISPs that allow you to add lists to their
  majordomo - again my ISP will not allow me to create an internet mailing
  list for my ezine, even with a fee.

cgi-bin scripts:  I understand the security problems with allowing users
  to write their own scripts - but why don't they take the time to approve
  new scripts, or maybe give me my own cgi-bin directory??

What I'm wondering is are any of these standard with an internet account,
and what I should expect from my ISP??

-vS...