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(dated, fandom slang) One of the very first science fiction fans, from the period 1930–33.

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, year = 1999 , date = August , first = Forrest J , last = Ackerman , authorlink = Forrest J Ackerman , magazine = Mimosa , title = Through Time and Space with Forry Ackerman , url = http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m24/forry.htm , issue = 24 , page = , passage = There was Charles Brown of Locus, the French fan and writer Georges Gallet, eofan Clifton Amsbury, and, of course, me and my wife Wendayne. }}

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, year = 2005 , monthday = February 25 , author = Alan Winston , email = , title = Re: Fan , id = 00A3FE31.CA639984@SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/dC2s1fAKKZg/IriRwHhkE0cJ }}

If the point of fannish jargon is to be exclusionary, why is there the matching fannish jargon of 'eofan' for long-established old-timers? If anybody would get it, they would.

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, year = 2006 , monthday = January 22 , author = Matthew B. Tepper , email = , title = Re: Sci Fi Conventions - Con suites , id = Xns9752E997F4B1quackandflap@207.217.125.201 , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/-OzMJso1BEY/B46AepxqgKkJ }}

If it's a real, fan-run science fiction convention (the abbreviation you use, while invented by a much-loved eofan , generally is disliked), all you have to do is wear your membership badge (another feature of real, fan-run cons; it's a membership, not a "ticket") and stroll into the con suite.