Go ahead. You know you want to. You’ve picked up the paper and thrown in back down a thousand times. Something I’ve written has made you furious.

So go ahead, write that letter.

If there is one thing that newspapers across the globe love, its letters to the editor; or e-mails to the editor; or faxes to the editor.

Whatever you call them, newspapers love the fact that someone has read what we produced, sat down and responded.

And no, we don’t expect you to always agree.

There is not a day that passes in my professional life that someone, somewhere doesn’t disagree with something that I’ve written.

Many times, it’s just mentioned in passing at lunch or a meeting.

“Hey, Scott, did you really mean that?” they will ask. “’Cause I don’t understand how you can think that way.”

Other times it happens on the phone, slipped in during a conversation about another issue.

“Oh, yeah, your last column really set my wife off.” Or something like that. And while I enjoy the feedback, it’s not the same as a well-written letter to the editor.

On those occasions I get the chance to see what the other person really thinks. And, more often than not, I get a well reasoned opinion that’s almost always different from my own.

Sure, once in a while, I cuss the letter writer. I’ll read what they have written and I’m just sure they have no idea what I was talking about. But what always brings me back is the fact they cared enough to write a letter.

And, almost always, we print them.

Of course, there is one exception — unsigned letters. For some reason, a few people will write a letter but refuse to put their name on it. It’s sent as a letter to the editor and it may have some really good thoughts, but it remains unsigned.

And it also will go unpublished; because this newspaper — and hundreds just like it — don’t publish unsigned letters to the editor. Maybe its the fact that my name is always on this column; so if you wish to reply, then your name should be on your work, too.