from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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}.