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Date Posted: Sat, July 12 2003, 7:51:06
Author: Katerina
Subject: And I myself started from 1001.vdv.ru
In reply to: Katerina 's message, "Just interesting" on Thu, June 05 2003, 8:26:53

Once I entered a book shop where Vladimir Shakhidzhanian promoted his new book. I saw this small, funny bearded man who was repeating the same words every 5 minutes: "Hello. My name is Vladimir Vladimirovich. My last name is Sha-khi-dza-nian. Don't pass by, come here. Don't be too modest, modesty is a bad thing. I wrote a book "I am interested in all people". This book helps you. Buy this book". I looked through the book, did not like it too much and did not buy it, but remembered the address of the Internet site at the end. Then I visited the messageboard on that site. It was the first board where I started writing. Some discussions there were interesting, but there were many restricted and boring people, especially Shakhidzhanian himself. They liked to give instructions, what u should write and what u shouldn't. For example, one of the girls was against using words of foreign background("clean Russian language"). 6 months later moderators began to censor messages without any reasons. After my 9 messages were deleted, I left the board, created a forum of my own(as Todd advised me) and invited people from there. And moderators not only censored the messages but opened all IP-adresses, including the adresses of old messages. Even of messages that were written by people, who wanted to share their problems anonymously. It was a big scandal and violation of Internet rules and most people left Shakhidzanian's board and site and never entered it again. Now site and forum exist, but I don't write there.

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Re: Just interesting -- Margaret, Sun, July 13 2003, 15:13:20