Spurious empty files in data/pages/

Hi,

I'm running MoinMoin 1.9.6 [release] on Scientific
Linux (A RHEL clone) 6.4.

I've moin configured so that anyone may create a
user, but users cannot create any pages unless
they are in a group, and the group page is itself
protected.

Spammers are creating users.  This is not a problem;
I detect and delete them periodically.  However,
spammers are attempting to create pages and each
time this happens moin leaves an empty file in
data/pages/.

The proliferation of these files is causing problems.

It would be nice if moin only allowed a user to
attempt page creation when the user has permission,
but that's for the future.  Right now I want to
know if there's a way I can prevent moin from creating
the empty files and plugging up the filesystem.

Yes, I can get rid of the pages with 'moin maint cleanpage',
and I do.  But I'd much rather not have the pages
created in the first place.

Is there a solution?

Thanks for the help.

Karl <[email protected]>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein

P.S.  FYI.  User creation also creates an empty file
in data/pages.  This is an unnecessary use of filesystem
resource until and if the user actually puts something
on their user page.



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