Loose URLs

I don't know about you, but I have a lot of mail in my Inbox that sitting there because I have to do SOMETHING with it, you know, not just delete it. On the other hand, none of it is URGENT or even that INTERESTING. But it's not spam, so that makes it somehow valuable, even if it does happen to be from people I've never met, or people who like to forward me poems and jokes.
My Inbox has things like this:
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From: "Travis Smith"
Subject: I'm Travis Smith

If you think you should have the main web page for travis smith, you must be a cool son of a bitch. i think you should think about it and e-mail me.
Thanks,
Travis Smith
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From: Travis at Variety
To: Travis at Home
Subject: A URL for my journal
Note to self: This site is perhaps the most bizarre example of why I like the Web.
http://www.elephantart.com/gallery.htm
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From: Susie
To: Travis
Subject: A horrific story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,648729,00.html
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Susie is getting a Master's degree in Public Art, an example of which is this story: The French artist Cho was profiled in a December BBC News report for his street-beautification project of sticking little flags into some of the many piles of dog droppings on Paris sidewalks (an estimated 5,800 tons per year) and then painting artistic borders around them. [BBC News, 12-21-01]

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