How to parse usenet urls?

From: "snewman18@xxxxxxxxx" <snewman18@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 30 May 2007 17:56:58 -0700

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?

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