How to parse usenet urls?

[Nikita the Spider]

In article <1180573018.786188.220260 at h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
 "snewman18 at gmail.com" <snewman18 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to parse newsgroup messages, and I need to follow URLs in
> this format: news://some.server. I can past them into a newsreader
> with no problem, but I want to do it programatically.
> 
> I can't figure out how to follow these links - anyone have any ideas?

Are you aware of nntplib?

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-nntplib.html

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