What to do if you're a "weak" moderator with an AWOL list owner?

Question

I'm a moderator (with only member and message approval capability) on a list where the list owner has gone AWOL. I've sent her countless emails. I know she's still on Yahoo, b/c her IM smiley is "on" a lot of times.

I cannot change settings, or delete the group. I started a new "sister group" on my own so members could actually do things they need to do, and I have full control.

The issue I'm having is that I get several membership requests per day on the old board. Each time I have to send them a message and direct them to the new group. It's getting old.

Because there are constant pending memberships, the group will not die on it's own (where Yahoo closes it do to inactivity).

HELP!?!?!?!

Answer 1

there's a lot MIA owners, here's some idea's and good luck

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/...