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 (see examples below). 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; 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 backedup 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."
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