Pitfalls of Online Antedating

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:52:40PM -0600, Mullins, Bill wrote:
> Is the below a hard and fast rule?  I've submitted some science fiction cites from
> scanned fanzines that I would bet that no one at the OED _can_ look up on original
> print sources.

A scanned fanzine is good enough, for our purposes. A transcribed
fanzine would be a problem, but we'll accept a scan as we would
a page image or a photocopy or anything similar.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED