Re: How to parse usenet urls?



In article <1180573018.786188.220260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"snewman18@xxxxxxxxx" <snewman18@xxxxxxxxx> 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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