--- In Dogpark-National-News@yahoogroups.com,
"Bill Zardus"
<ccdogpark@...> wrote:

> There is no way to set up a yahoo group to run
> effectively after the demise of the only
> moderator.

Unless something has changed very recently that is not true.

Here is a reply from Yahoo in response to another group I belong to
that we thought had been abandoned by its moderator.

Quote:

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Groups.

I understand that you are interested in the management of your Yahoo!
Group ******.

To select a new moderator please use the group's polls feature to
create a poll. Then list the member names, or email addresses, of a
few members who would like to be a moderator as these will be the
choices for the poll. You will need to announce the poll to your group and ask
the members to vote on who they would like to be moderator.
Please allow the poll to remain open for a period of at least one
week. Once the poll has closed, please email a reply back to us and we will
appoint the "elected" moderator.

We do apologize for any inconvenience during this process and please
let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Groups.

Regards,

End quote.

Bob
bayward1 at verizon.net

-------------------- End of Bob --------------------

Thank You for posting this.

The thing I LOVE about yahoo groups is that if you
submit 3 different but identical requests on 3
different days to their help people, you will
frequently get 3 completely different answers
depending on how lazy and/or incompetent
the person is who is answering the request.

I've already advised the people trying to recover
the Grand Prairie group, to do a poll because I
knew about another group that was recovered in
a similar manner but I thought they might have
discontinued performing this service recently.

The nice thing about having our group messages
open to non-members is that I can now post a link
to your comments and say: "see, they are still doing
this, and if you continue asking them, eventually
you will get the answer you want."

(I just checked and Deb had the group set up
so that anyone can start a poll, but that could
also be a problem if she did not.)

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/forms_index.html
Could you check with your source and make sure
this is the help URL that was used to get this
positive response ?

WRZ