Can you, and if you can, how can you, delete a yahoo account?

yes, u can close ur yahoo account.

Click on the link below:

http://search.cc.yahoo.com/search

type in "close account" and you'll find "How do I close my account?" option on the left...click on the link & then click on account deletion and follow the instructions to delete your account permanently.

Hope this helps...

cheers

-Steff-

As far as I know, the only way an account is deleted from Yahoo! is upon Customer Care's receipt of a death certificate. From the TOS:

"No Right of Survivorship and Non-Transferability. You agree that your Yahoo! account is non-transferable and any rights to your Yahoo! ID or contents within your account terminate upon your death. Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate, your account may be terminated and all contents therein permanently deleted."

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/changing_use...

Please click the above link and then click on account deletion in the third last para of the page. A new window will open and will guide u further in solving ur problem.

Or Go to https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user

and click on terminate account.

It will solve ur problem.

You can't - but if you stop using it, I believe Yahoo will automatically cancel it after a period of inactivity.

You can't delete it...just stop logging into it!