Freenet

   Community-based bulletin board system with e-mail, information
   services, interactive communications, and conferencing.
   Freenets are funded and operated by individuals and volunteers
   - in one sense, like public television.  They are part of the
   National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN), an organisation
   based in Cleveland, Ohio, devoted to making computer
   telecommunication and networking services as freely available
   as public libraries.