From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: Dollar Signs Article-I.D.: watarts.1652 Posted: Sun Jan 30 00:46:58 1983 Received: Sun Jan 30 23:16:15 1983 Reply-To: geo@watarts (Geo Swan) References: bronze.445 I have noticed missing dollar signs too, but only in the subject lines. I think that it is the result of someone invoking inews in the following way: inews -n net.games.trivia -t "$1,000,000 question" The shell of course interprets any metacharacters in the quoted string, swallowing the $1.