Arkie and Olddude, I have the same experience. People I love and admire and respect in most things send me some pure unadulterated crap., outright lies, easily refuted lies, lies that were first circulated years ago about some other hapless person- and they seem to think that they are sending me wake up material.

As a general rule, when it's an outright lie, I say something fairly mild like "It's just not true, folks", link to some explanatory article(s) and do a REPLY ALL. The rest I just don't respond to.

I have no idea of how many people click the links - I do know that I've earned the reputation of being hardheaded. lol