See fringefan on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1969, Harry Warner, Jr., All Our Yesterdays, page 263:",
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"ref": "1983 January 7, csin!cjh, “Re cursing ministers”, in net.sf-lovers (Usenet), message-ID <bnews.csin.246>:",
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"ref": "1985, Algis Budrys, Benchmarks, page 253:",
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"ref": "1994 June 3, Brad Templeton, “Re: What Are Cons For?”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <CqssD6.755@clarinet.com>:",
"text": "Depends on what you want from a con, but I imagine that the name GoH attracts the fringefen who would not come otherwise, and those people pay enough money so the con can book all the function space it wants to.",
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"ref": "1995 June 11, Chris Croughton, “Re: LL Reconsidered?”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <802799304snz@keris.demon.co.uk>:",
"text": "Oh, I do enjoy Ansible as well <grovel>. However, I wasn't sure that was a True Fanzine (tm) - after all, it's read by (shock, horror) media fans, filkers, and other such fringefen. It also uses Modern Technology, not Traditional Ways Of Producing Fanzines (not that the email version of DR is exactly traditional either!)...",
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