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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>baggy pantsing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bagbiting.html" title="bagbiting"/><link rel="next" href="balloonian-variable.html" title="balloonian variable"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">baggy pantsing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bagbiting.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="balloonian-variable.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="baggy-pantsing"/><dt xmlns="" id="baggy-pantsing"><b>baggy pantsing</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Georgia Tech] A &#8220;<span class="quote">baggy pantsing</span>&#8221; 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
&#8220;<span class="quote">unattentive user who left their work unprotected in the
clusters</span>&#8221;. 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 &#8220;<span class="quote">claimed</span>&#8221; by immediately quoting the
message in full, followed by your <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>; 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: &#8220;<span class="quote">Prof. Greenlee fell asleep in the Solaris cluster
again; we baggy-pantsed him to <tt class="systemitem">git.cc.class.2430.flame</tt>.</span>&#8221; Compare
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