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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
hollised
 /hol'ist/, adj.

    [Usenet: sci.space] To be hollised is to have been ordered by one's
    employer not to post any even remotely job-related material to Usenet (or,
    by extension, to other Internet media). The original and most notorious
    case of this involved one Ken Hollis, a Lockheed employee and space-program
    enthusiast who posted publicly available material on access to Space
    Shuttle launches to sci.space. He was gagged under threat of being fired in
    1994 at the behest of NASA public-relations officers. The result was, of
    course, a huge publicity black eye for NASA. Nevertheless several other
    NASA contractor employees were subsequently hollised for similar
    activities. Use of this term carries the strong connotation that the
    persons doing the gagging are bureaucratic idiots blinded to their own best
    interests by territorial reflexes.


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