Group Owner lost password and username he signed up with. How can we recover password to reassign ownership?

Question

Group Owner no longer has original e-mail acct, so requesting Yahoo to send him the password won't work. How can the Owner recover the password? Or can the Group assign a new owner?

Answer 1

some one with owner priviledges can only assign another owner. many groups are in this same spot, too. owner looses password, account is deleted. owner is simply MIA. the owner needs that account/ pass word to be able to be seen as owner

an owner needs to promote a member or

it is said that if you contact yahoo, they will appoint a moderator (not an owner) if a poll is conducted to vote one in by the members of the group. however yahoo hasn't said what priviledges they'd give as moderator.

some have said they tried this method, and once yahoo knew there was no active owner, they deleted the group as part of clean-up.

your other choice is to create another group and invite those active members to it. this is probably the better of choice since there's then be an owner.

either way, here's the help form

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/...

good luck