I usually also check either the hoax index or urban legend index at About.com, too. A couple other quick de-bunking sources have dried up in the past few years.

I asked one of those people who persistently send 'round bandwidth-sapping emails "email this to everyone in your address book or all of your hair will fall out" why she didn't check any of these things out first before forwarding them to the entire immediate world. She said, "Why should I? You'll do it for me and let me know."

Sigh.

Linn