How to assign new group owner?

Question

The owner of a philosophy group I belong to had, for some reason, his Yahoo! account de-activated. Therefore he cannot log onto and administer the group. So currently the group is ownerless. We can post messages, but cannot perform important administrative functions. Is there a way to request that a new owner be assigned?

Answer 1

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/...