urlchars = r'[A-Za-z0-9/:@_%~#=&\.\-\?\+\$,]+'
urlendchar = r'[A-Za-z0-9/]'
-url = r'["=]?((about|gopher|http|https|ftp|mailto|file):%s)' % \
+url = r'["=]?((about|file|ftp|gopher|http|https|mailto|news|telnet):%s)' % \
(urlchars+urlendchar)
def _url2href(match):