How to find out who owns a yahoogroup?

Question

I am a member of a Yahoogroup, the group owner has disappeared on us and the group is being over run by spammers, The owner set up the group so that the membership list doesn't appear on the groups page. How do I find out from Yahoo who the owner is so I can contact them directly.

Thanks.

Answer 1

you can look at the bottom of the group for list owners address, it'll get to the owner providing their address is still valid. if you don't get a reply, the owner may be MIA- and there's lots of group in tis same position.

other options

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/...