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baggy pantsing: v.
[Georgia Tech] A “baggy pantsing” is used to reprimand hackers who
incautiously leave their terminals unlocked. The affected user will come
back to find a post from them on internal newsgroups discussing exactly
how baggy their pants are, an accepted stand-in for “unattentive user
who left their work unprotected in the clusters”. A properly-done baggy
pantsing is highly mocking and humorous. It is considered bad form to
post a baggy pantsing to off-campus newsgroups or the more technical,
serious groups. A particularly nice baggy pantsing may be “claimed” by
immediately quoting the message in full, followed by your sig block; this has the added
benefit of keeping the embarassed victim from being able to delete the
post. Interesting baggy-pantsings have been done involving adding
commands to login scripts to repost the message every time the unlucky
user logs in; Unix boxes on the residential network, when cracked,
oftentimes have their homepages replaced (after being politely backed-up
to another file) with a baggy-pants message; .plan files are also
occasionally targeted. Usage: “Prof. Greenlee fell asleep in the Solaris
cluster again; we baggy-pantsed him to
git.cc.class.2430.flame
.” Compare derf.
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