From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: Dollar Signs
Article-I.D.: watarts.1655
Posted: Thu Feb  3 17:37:31 1983
Received: Fri Feb  4 00:05:43 1983
Reply-To: geo@watarts (Geo Swan)
References: bronze.445 watarts.1652

The original article titled "Dollar Signs" (bronze.445)
asked whether the missing dollar signs in articles were
the result of a bug in news or uucp.  In my original response
(watarts.1652) I contended that they were all the result of
human error, as all the missing dollar signs I had seen
were in the Title: lines of articles, where if the poster
had incorrectly escaped the $[0-9] it would have been
swallowed by the shell.

I have received a couple of responses from people contending
that dollar signs disappear from the body of articles too.
On of my respondents cited tekchips.172 as an example.  Yes,
this article does have some places where dollar signs are
obviously missing.  However this article has also been formatted.
Nroff would also try to interpret $[0-9].  I think I will still
contend that articles with missing dollar signs are the result
of human errors.

I would be interested in hearing about any counter-examples....