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.