From: Martin Danerud <emwda <at> EMW <dot> ERICSSON <dot> SE>
Date: 1 apr 1996
Subject: Board game servers statistics 2

Dear shogi friends,

At noon GMT today Monday, April 1, the following number of people were
logged in at five different board game servers:

Server:                                                            No:

FICS (Free Internet Chess Server) at telnet://ics.onenet.net:5000  131
IGS (Internet Go Server) at telnet://igs.nuri.net:6969             102
FIBS (First Internet Backgammon Server) at telnet://fraggel65.
mdstud.chalmers.se:4321                                             61
IOS (Internet Othello Server) at telnet://faust.uni-paderborn.de:
5000                                                                13
ICCS (Internet Chinese Chess Server) at telnet://coolidge.harvard.
edu:5555                                                             9

Today I received a message from the IGS people that there was a disk
crash last week at the igs.nuri.net. That means that the Internet Shogi
Server (ISS) will be down for a while. In the meantime it will be
possible to play shogi at igs.nuri.net:6969 like before the ISS existed.
They hope to have the ISS up and running as soon as possible again.
See you all at the ISS!

                                             Sincerely yours,

                                             Dr Martin Danerud