[HCoop-Discuss] Require explicit privileges to post to the wiki?

[Adam Chlipala]

Ron Senykoff wrote:
> Something that works well to effectively stop spam in MoinMoin is to
> not let someone in who targets the UserPreferences page without a
> referrer. This prevents spam bots that specifically hit the moinmoin
> UserPreferences page URL from getting in.
>
> # Block unreferred scripts from creating accounts
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} UserPreferences
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^$
> RewriteRule /UserPreferences - [F]
>
> Just this one rule will stop most all of the spam.

I've added this configuration.  We'll see if it's enough to stop the 
problem.  Thanks for the suggestion!