I'm mining it too. japool is dead, but fortunately there is blackpools.pw. We need exchange, yeah. I'm counting on scificoinexchange anytime soon to appear. So many great sci-fi coins (gpl, ufc, ked, off) need exchange sooner or later.
I didn't know the japool Offerings pool was offline. I have no intention of shutting down the blackpools Offerings pool btw but if I need to for one reason or another I will try to give warning. The machine that hosts the Offerings p2pool also hosts Quark and now Frozen. The Quark pool has offset a bit of the server cost. Even if I spent a bit keeping it up I would, it's a leaning experience for me. For those that use the pool, sorry for the high number of DOAs a day or so ago, crazies mining Frozen crushed the modest hardware, which is now since upgraded.