eofan - What does it mean?

Noun

(en-noun)

(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 = [email protected] | 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 = [email protected] | 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.