"fanac" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1956 September, Robert Bloch, “Some of Best Fans are Friends”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 11, number 3, page 57",
          "text": "This, however, is only part of the story—just as fanzines and fan activity (Fanac) are only a part of the totality which is fandom.",
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          "ref": "1977, Brian Ash, The Visual encyclopedia of science fiction, Harmony Books, page 274",
          "text": "It must be emphasised that this was genuinely a 'historical' action; letter-writing to the prozines is currently a discouraged area of fanac.",
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          "ref": "2002, Mike Resnick, Once a Fan..., Wildside Press LLC, page 274",
          "text": "The advent of the computer and the modem means that an increasingly large number of fans indulge in most of their fanac online.",
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          "word": "apahacking"
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          "alt": "a fanzine",
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          "word": "smoffing"
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        "(dated, fandom slang) The activity of fans, particularly of science fiction."
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