Joey Schulze conspiciously omits the reason that James Troup gave him in response to his recent request to become an ftpmaster.

I'm betting that it has to do with separation of duties. Joey is already a member of the Debian System Administration team. Having a member of DSA also be in ftpmaster would be very dangerous and is not a risk that Debian should ever take. Who knows what could happen?

Jörg, your use of ASCII confuses me. Do you mean ⅔, 2 ÷ 3, 2 ∕ 3, or a relative pathname called 2/3 ?

Unicode solves all communication problems.