It's not very often that I come out and publically criticise other people, but this can't go without comment...
I'm not defending what Frank Carmickle did. I was one of the debian-boot subscribers affected, but sheesh, you don't send stuff like that to debian-devel-announce. That's going to go in the archives, get cached all over the place, and really make us look like a bunch of twits. Well Branden anyway. And he would like us to consider him as an alternative DPL. Up until now, I'd really given him the benefit of the doubt, but there's no way in hell he's going to get my vote to represent me.