My polite response the knowledge that I forwarded it to feldmann myself and I'm assuming pressure from his family reading it since I posted it here and on facebook lead him to apologize profusely for making such a bone head mistake.
Being the nice guy that I am I removed all copies of the e-mail from the internet.
Chatted with him on gTalk for a bit. He seems like a pretty chill dude that was just sick of his family constantly talking about this contest. To some degree I understand that frustration because I currently get to answer 20+ e-mails/phone calls a day with a request for an update.
Had my mother over for her birthday and all she could talk about for the 4+ hours she was at my house was this contest. It will be awesome as hell to win but I'll be happy its over no matter the outcome.
Then again I'll probably have to answer questions about "how could we possibly have lost" for the next few months if we lose. so lets win this.