We are, of course, amazed that our readers occasionally disagree with our brilliant and witty essays. In fact, sometimes quite a few readers think that The Outrage editors are wrong, misanthropic, idiotic, selfish, deluded, or all of the above.

Mother Outrage always told us that even the dull and the ignorant should have their say, so we've allowed space below for those dissenting opinions (and for shameless flattery).

You want to find out who's spamming you? Trace the dollar. Find out who wants your money.

Here is where I'm at with the porn...I've set up an account for my young daughter and son (accounts they will never see). I'm saving all of those porn emails that come to those accounts with XXX pictures that are viewable even in just the preview pane. (Think about it...this stuff really does come to any children who may have an email address, ages 13 or younger to 18.)

The Internet is still wild country. I hate certain regulations as much as anybody, but I never minded when they said porn mags had to stay behind the counter with the clerk so young kids couldn't get 'em. I don't get porn in my snail-mail box without asking for it. It's illegal. I sure wouldn't mind tighter restrictions on no requested porn in my children’s email boxes (and subsequently mine).

The only way to get make that happen is to save the proof, find the end of the money trail and start suing the crap out of people. Make sure your local paper knows about it. Get a law passed.

And what the F@&k is up with Norton Antivirus? Are they hurting so bad that they need to resort to spam as bad as the worst? They pi$$ed me off so bad with all the spam that I removed all Norton products from my computer. I use InoculateIT (Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus) now. Screw you, Norton!

Thanks!

I would like to know how unsolicited pop ups come up on my browser. I understand how JavaScript from a page that I have requested can open a pop up. But the windows that I am currently getting happen even when my browser is not running. Somehow, something is starting IEXPLORE.EXE and then launching the popup. The HTML has something about a dialer popup. How can they do this? Thanks

I hate the telemarketers more than anyone. I feel very strongly that the phone is mine and they are intruding on my private devices. Where is the courts to protect us.

What I hate is unsolicited e-mail, and then not being able to unsubscribe -- either the link is dead, you have to cut, copy + paste to unsub or get this, you have to call them to do so. (Webtv is like the Internet on training wheels -- so you can't block separate addresses.)

Come see my site while you're at it -- http://community.webtv.net/CNYWP/DontTalktoCops

Wake up people... You whine that you don't like advertising and most likely you're sitting there wearing an Abercrombie T-shirt, Tommy jeans, and NIKE shoes... Give me a break! That's the real outrage. If it wasn't for advertising even this Web site wouldn't be in business. Face it... Advertising is the engine to business as we know it. If people didn't respond to all the "sleaze" you're crying about, marketers wouldn't be doing it. What's the difference between a billboard along the roadway and pop-up ad on the Internet? It's the price you pay for all of the "free" Web sites. The fact remains, nothing in life is really free. Someone has to pay--and if the price is simply hitting your delete button a few times a day, do the world a real favor, just do it!

I hate the junk I get in the mail. HERE'S A GOOD ONE TO GET BACK AT MARKETERS who send you junk in you mail. Sometimes they have those cards to send pack with "Postage Paid For" on it. DON'T THROW IT OUT. That is what the company is hoping those who are not intrest will do. Instead, send it back blank or write on it whatever you want. I personally like to write stuff like "Go tell your boss to F.O." , or "Kiss my A$#!!" Even though the postage has already been paid for, IT COST THEM, THE MARKETING COMPANY when you send it back. If eveybody did this then the companies would think twice about sending the crap because it'd cost them big time. They arer relying on the people that are not intrested in just throwing it out. DON'T THROW IT OUT. SEND IT BACK! If they got all the "postage paid for" returns all blank from people who were not intrested then they might stop sending the crap.

Freedom of privacy in the U.S.A. is a forever on going evolving situation. Telephones,T.V.,Internet, are only some foundational forms used to tell other people who we are and what we're about without ever having come in contact with us. For example, by reading my response you have already figured out that that I have know idea what I'm talking about. . . . BUT THAT'S MY BUSINESS SO LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!

I am particularly outraged by all the porn advertising I get-hate it!!

Live-calls, mostly from the telephone company (Bell Monopoly - as opposed to Mobility), and from Mastercard. They start their call with "And how are YOU today". Being "live", their calls are driven by incentived tenacity. They even talk minutes after you laid down the receiver (without hanging up) in order to pursue more interesting tasks at home, such as fishing an errant fork out of a sink garburrettor! Beats the 99-cent come-on by far.

I read your "Marketing Sleaze!" outrage newsletter and I know of one item that was overlooked. It only affects AOL users however. Some person of the sort who sends spam discovered that its part of the design of the utility that handles instant messages that it is possible to insert a link into a message. So now many people get notices asking people if they want to recieve an IM from a screenname but if they accept instead of chatting with a person, they just see a text-only ad.

The next time a Marketeer calls you be nice, play along, get their name and the Company name. Then say,"Please place me on your 'Do Not Call List'" They must then do so by law. If they call again do the same but follow it up with a Complaint in small claims court for $25. When your day in court comes they won't show up and even if they do you wil win. How much? Would you believe $500 for each offense! It's true, there are folks who have received thousands of $$$ ! -joe

My pet peeve is probably a little off the mark of what you are looking for but here goes.

I am completely fed up with the TV commercials that promote prescription drugs! They are particularly prevalent during the evening news. They run them over and over again, day after day.Have you noticed that after extoling the benefits they must legally inform us of the side effects which will leave you sicker than you were before you took the damn stuff? And why is it that the side effects always include the very same symptoms that you take the drug to get rid of in the first place! And many doctors like mine take offense when you walk in and ask for something that you saw on TV. _joe

I object to the phenomenon of unsolicited 'pop-up' ads. An invasion of my privacy.

1. Spam. Techies hate spam even more than most people: we're the ones who have to deal with it clogging our servers. Blaming all techies for spam is like blaming George W. Bush for Bill Clinton's sins. . .

2. Those damned computer calls. I have a trick to beat them. Look on the net for anti-telemarketing pages. Many have a sound file of that distinctive 3-tone sequence that tells you the number has been disconnected. Get the file, arrange for it to be the FIRST thing on your answering machine. When autodialers "hear" the tones, they automatically remove you from the list of numbers they dial. There's also a piece of equipment that does it, the "Tele-Zapper", but this solution is free, whereas the Zapper is about 50 bucks. . .

The particularly insiduous version of pornsite come ons (pardon the pun) which leads with 'I FINALLY FOUND YOU!!!', 'In reply to your inquiry', those are just so blatant. Saddest is that if it didn't work, they wouldn't keep doing it! Another cute one in the body of these letters, usually following the premise of a 'young, shy girl' who just loves to 'show everything in front of a webcam' yada yada, is the comment somewhere that she 'saw' you in a chat room (how do you do THAT???) but was 'too shy' to talk to you then... So, how the hell did she get your email addy??? Bottom fishin' sounds to me like. Just wish they'd get caught on their own hook. I've tried turning them in, but that only slightly soothes, as the places they claim to come from are simply a front.

There are plenty of things to rage about. From people who don't know "their" from "there" or "they're" to technology to sleazy marketing schemes. But even some of the non-sleazy marketing schemes are more than a bit annoying. Just yesterday I received mail from my auto insurance agent offering me a Platinum bank card, an airline offing me free miles if I would switch my long distance carrier to one I already use, a university (that I attended for only one semester) alum association that wanted to offer me life insurance and the list goes on and on. Why is it that each company has to "partner" with some other company make "special offers" when what consumers really want is a good product at a reasonable price and decent customer service who actually care about their customers?

The tech heads always find ways to annoy us. The whole industry was spawned by the failed Dot-Com world, serves them right !!!

Go to the web and find a good tool to reduce these types of attachments.

The telemarketers, well thier all a bunch of lousy F's

The marketing tactic that most offends me is driven by that immutable imperative that drives the federal government: If you don't know what to do, do anything because the American people are too stupid to see the smoke and mirrors. I give you the hype and nonsense about airport security. The airport security workers that I have seen, with very few exceptions, couldn't find a rabid weasel if it was stuffed into their shorts. Either they should get serious about security or they should drop the pretense. The current system doesn't fool anybody.

I make it a point to notice the names of the advertisers in those incessant, annoying popup ads and I DO NOT purchase their goods or services...EVER! If they were to do away with those horrible popups, I may change my mind, but until then...NO THANKS!

Note that all of these sleazy marketing tactics are aided by technology