From din5w@dot.cs.virginia.edu Thu May 2 11:22:24 1996 Return-Path: Received: from virginia.edu (mars.itc.Virginia.EDU) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA14220; Thu, 2 May 96 11:22:24 EDT Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa28516; 2 May 96 11:22 EDT Received: from dot.cs.Virginia.EDU (din5w@dot.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.67.21]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA03345 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 11:22:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by dot.cs.Virginia.EDU (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA08023; Thu, 2 May 96 11:22:10 EDT Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 11:22:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Dale Newfield X-Sender: din5w@dot.cs.Virginia.EDU Reply-To: DNewfield@virginia.edu To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: building a Rubik's Revenge In-Reply-To: <199605020540.BAA17826@zaphod.caz.ny.us> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII OK--how's this for a suggestion: Since the goal of this project is to "spread the wealth," let's say that anybody that donates any 4x4x4 parts and has no other 4x4x4 cube should get one in return, but otherwise, all reconstructed cubes should go to people that currently have none. As well, any excess pieces when we're done can be distributed along with the cubes (and back to the original donators), so that future catastrophes may be fixed (a corner, three edges, and three centers, for example). Rather than continue this discussion on the mailing list, unless there actually is anything of general interest in this, I'd suggest we do this through personal mail from now on. So, send me mail regarding what pieces you have been able to dig up and stating if you have another 4by cube, or send me mail saying that you've been looking for a 4by, and since they seem unavailable elsewhere, would like one of these reconstructed ones. To further save me some typing, I'll include my snail-mail address below, to which people that have pieces can send them. If mail costs turn out to be non-trivial, we could probably ask those recieving cubes to pitch in to cover these costs--so I'll try to mark down the postage on each package that I recieve, in order to keep a record. -Dale BTW--I found and put together what I have last night--an entire cube except for one broken center piece, and one broken corner piece--this one should be easily resurrected! (And I have other 4x4x4's so this one is due for distribution :-) Dale Newfield 1805 Inglewood Dr. #23A Charlottesville, VA 22901-2708 U.S.A. |..|.|..|.||.|..||......||..|.||...|||...|..|.||....|.|..|..|| (No, this barcode is not necessary, but I figured this would be a good place to ask: "Has anyone figured out what information is encoded in this, or how it is encoded?" :-)