Version:           0.7.2 (using KDE 3.1.2)
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.18

While I reported bug 59448, I noticed that KNode doesn't support the (inofficial) news: URL scheme. The latest semi-official references describing it, is this [1] document (I think).

It seems like KNode does support the following:
 * <news:bbigc2$a2l$1@mail.fh-wedel.de> will fetch the article with that Message-Id from any of your news servers
 * <news://news.fh-wedel.de/fhw.talk> wil jump to the newsgroup fhw.talk on news.fh-wedel.de
There might be more which I haven't tested.

The following doesn't work though:
 * <news://news.fh-wedel.de/bbigc2$a2l$1@mail.fh-wedel.de>: fetch that message from that server (related to bug 26997)
 * <news://news.fh-wedel.de/fhw.talk/1234>: fetch the message with the number 1234 in the group fhw.talk on that server; KNode tries to subscribe a group fhw.talk/1234!

While I was looking and fiddling around I also noticed the following:
 * <nntp://news.fh-wedel.de> is opened in Konqi; funny ;-)
 * Here [2] is an intersting thread about a possible standardized news: scheme; I didn't read the whole thread though and don't know what happened to the proposal

Cheers,
Malte

[1]http://www.landfield.com/usefor/drafts/draft-gilman-news-url-02.txt
[2]http://www.landfield.com/usefor/2001/Jun/0300.html