Hi

read http://moinmo.in/HelpOnSpam and enable textchas


cheers
Reimar

Am 08.12.2011 16:05, schrieb Steven W. Orr:
> On 12/8/2011 12:31 AM, John Hurst wrote:
>> I had this problem.  I explored the web page below, but couldn't get it to 
>> work.
>>
>>    http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/DisableUserCreation
>>
>> Aftyer much trial and error, I eventually nurgled the _create_user routine 
>> in<your directory for python packages>/MoinMoin/action/newaccount.py to add 
>> a couple of lines
>>
>> def _create_user(request):
>>      _ = request.getText
>>      form = request.form
>>
>>      if not request.user.isSuperUser():
>>          return _('You are not allowed to use this action.')
>>
>>      ...
>>
>> which does the trick by allowing only superusers to create new accounts.  
>> However, it doesn't actually print the error message, but internal errors, 
>> for reasons I don't understand.  Oh well, it was a simple fix.  Perhaps 
>> someone else might explain what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> This is not really what I want. I don't want other people to not be allowed 
> to 
> create accounts. What I want is to prevent people from creating accounts 
> whose 
> email address matches a pattern. In my case (today) the interlopers are all 
> on 
> the .info TLD
> 
> Another thing that would be wonderful would be if the account creation could 
> be completed only by responding to a confirmation email, the same as if you 
> were signing up for a mailing list.
> 
> But, I don't want to disallow everyone from signing up as a default.
> 
> BTW, I should mention that all of the spam that I'm getting is not only 
> coming 
> from the .info TLD, it's also coming in despite TextCha being enabled. That 
> never used to be the case.
> 



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