I am Moderator of a small group. The Owner is dead. How do I assume ownership of the group?

Question

I have all moderator privilages except:

* modifying moderator privilages

* deleting the group.

I am the only (living) Moderator.

Bob (deceased) is the only Owner.

Answer 1

From my limited knowledge, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to run the group with the privileges you currently have.  However, since you weren't appointed co-owner and can't modify moderator privileges, you won't be able to create a successor or even an assistant moderator of the group. There might be a way to get the Yahoo powers-that-be to change the group settings, but trying to reach them can sometimes be an exercise in futility. So to be an owner you would probably have to create a fresh group with you as the owner, invite all the members of the current group to move to it, and keep links in the group to the old one so members have access to the archives.

Answer 2

you probably have all the privs Yahoo would give and it doesn't matter if the owner died or is just MIA;  but as I posted earlier:

this is tricky as to what members have reported.

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/...