[Moin-user] user group pages as regular expressions?

[Stephen Edwards]

>     #acl AdminGroup:read,write,delete,revert,admin All:read
>      * 521jingke889999
>      * 521jingke6666
>      * 521jingke66666
>      * FaDian
>      * AnyiDpnga
>      * ku685sun3
>      * baobs521

FWIW, I've seen several of these names as well.  Once I
added e-mail account verification to my wiki (using
one of the macros + actions posted on the moin site),
it cut down dramatically on the spam.  In particular,
I've seen several of these (and also several caicaimm32
accounts, with varying digits) go unvalidated, so they never
get write access.  However, I still get a few spammers.

For example, I just saw several new pages from baobs521
this morning, which means that the e-mail address given
during new account creation was most likely valid, and the
validation link in the outgoing e-mail message was used.
So this can't just be a basic spambot.

> It would be nice if these usernames were regular expressions instead.

Hmmm ... the e-mail account verification macro I used
had the option of steering some/all of the activation messages
to a "moderator" e-mail address.  I'm pretty sure it would
be an easy task to send all user names that are low case letters/
numbers through for manual approval ... or anything where the
e-mail address is from hotmail or gmail ...

-- Steve

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