What does one do about an abandoned yahoo group?

Question

No one, at this point, knows who the original moderator of the groups was. The group is now filled with spam email. The valid participants have migrated to a new list.

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 and other's have reported Yahoo will just say they cant do anything.

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/...

Answer 2

Nothing you can do if you are not the owner/manager/moderator and if no one knows who the group owner is. As long as the site is being filled with spam and there's no one there to report is as spam, it will be viewed as an active site because it still has traffic. It will eventually fade into the abyss when spammers realize no one from the site is responding to the spam but this could take months - maybe years since most spam is sent out in bulk. If it was a site that was dear to you, I recommend bidding it a fond farewell and starting your own, similar site.

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