Email Circles of Hell

I'm old enough to remember when email seemed like the future. Likewise with texting. Many days find me looking forward to the apocalypse, and the disappearance of the apparatus of modernity. I subscribe to Doc Searls' blog, though I seldom find anything to agree with in his writing or his work. His heart is in the right place, at least now, but I don't think he understands the problem. But he blogs about other things, like radio, and that's interesting to me. This morning though, I genuinely felt for Doc and his ordeal trying to get Apple Mail to talk to Fastmail. No human should have to go through that. My email problem today isn't strictly an email problem so much as a reading comprehension problem. We received an email last night from the company that we've contracted to do our deck and porch on the new house. In it, the guy we've been dealing with wrote that the designer, "refined the original schematic design with a few tweaks." Nope. He emphatically did not. He changed the…