How to get my Gmail contacts to my Yahoo account?

How can I inactivate my Yahoo account?

• My kids love gmail and have encouraged me to get it. I am tired of the Yahoo spam and recently had an email sent to all my contacts from "me" which I did not send. I would like to inactivate my Yahoo account and set up a new email account with gmail

• Answer:

  To cancel your Yahoo account, go here: https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user Then do the following: -Login with your current username and password -Select which account that you want to delete -Enter in your password once again for verification purposes -Enter in the anti-spam code; this is to prevent automated submissions -Click Terminate This Account to finish off this process. You can never open your account back up again because of security reasons. By terminating your Yahoo account, you will permanently lose access to it. Everything stored in your account will be lost during that process. All this includes: -Mail -Address Book -Answers (your posted content will remain permanently archived) -Messenger -My Yahoo! -Groups -Alerts -Flickr -Any other area that is accessible with your username and password The only other alternative is to let your account lapse after 6 months of inactivity, plus 2 months for each year you have been an member.