VA-PEN                  freeware                source included
                                                NetNews available
        
     contact:   Tim Sigmon
                tms@holmes.acc.virginia.edu
                Academic Computing Center
                Gilmer Hall
                University of Virginia
                Charlottesville  VA  22903

     demo:      none officially

VA-PEN (Virginia Public Education Network) is a message system developed
at UVa for the state's K-12 computer program.  It is based around C-news
as the underlying conferencing mechanism, and support configurable
menus, various upload/download protocols, and extensive on-line
documentation.  The software (with modifications) is used on the
Tallahasee Florida FreeNet machine.

(I remember Tim Sigmon as a Duke Grad Student in the early days of
Usenet. :-)