Is that possible I take over the non active mailing list?

Question

hi all...

just wanna ask the simple question? can I take over the non active mailing list? because the mailing list has been not active since 2002.

note: I have try contact the moderator, but there no answer.

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/...