Am 08.12.2011 18:53, schrieb Steven W. Orr:
> On 12/8/2011 11:05 AM, R.Bauer wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> read http://moinmo.in/HelpOnSpam and enable textchas
>>
>>
>> cheers
>> Reimar
> 
> As I mentioned:
> 
> ...it's also coming in despite TextCha being enabled. That never used to be 
> the case.
> 

You can use a textcha only you can answer. Then only people in your
group which don't be annoyed by textchas can create accounts by the
newaccount action for others.

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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