The new-music programs, though, have occasionally drawn irate letters.

In her blog, she gave a summary of one irate letter she fired off to the 250-year-old Regent Street store.

Mr. Berg said he got fan mail and an occasional irate letter from game players.

Newspapers said they would not report matches and carried a barrage of irate letters.

It used to generate irate letters from veterans' organizations; now no one complains.

His efforts were invariably overruled, and he received some irate letters.

Last time around, there were irate letters to the editor and two negative editorials in The New York Times.

And if officials are no longer receiving as many irate letters from their constituents, it may be because many of them simply moved out.

They have aired their dismay at public meetings, on radio and television and with irate letters to the local newspapers.