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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hollised</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hole.html" title="hole"/><link rel="next" href="holy-penguin-pee.html" title="holy penguin pee"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hollised</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hole.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="holy-penguin-pee.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hollised"/><dt xmlns="" id="hollised"><b>hollised</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/hol<6F>ist/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet: <tt class="systemitem">sci.space</tt>] To be
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hollised is to have been ordered by one's employer not to post any even
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remotely job-related material to Usenet (or, by extension, to other
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Internet media). The original and most notorious case of this involved one
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Ken Hollis, a Lockheed employee and space-program enthusiast who posted
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publicly available material on access to Space Shuttle launches to
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<tt class="systemitem">sci.space</tt>. He was gagged under
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threat of being fired in 1994 at the behest of NASA public-relations
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officers. The result was, of course, a huge publicity black eye for NASA.
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Nevertheless several other NASA contractor employees were subsequently
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hollised for similar activities. Use of this term carries the strong
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connotation that the persons doing the gagging are bureaucratic idiots
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blinded to their own best interests by territorial reflexes.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hole.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="holy-penguin-pee.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hole<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>holy penguin pee</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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