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In computing, Njudge is an implementation of a Diplomacy (game) adjudicator, receiving orders and sending messages and results via email.
It works on a variety of Linux and Unix platforms.
Njudge was originally written in the 1980s by Ken Lowe as a first programming project, to serve local interest. It then expanded and was installed on several servers internationally. With the advent of free email access for all, its use has boomed and the most active judge has in excess of 10,000 registered players and more than 100 games active at any one time.
It is an email based system, and uses its own special syntax for commands, surrounded by a signon/signoff sequence, with a password verifying the user. No web interface at present exists, although there does exist Alain Tésio's mapping service that uses a modified