I believe there was a post a few weeks back with link to close yahoo account... Search the forum.... Other method is to leave the account unused for about 3 months...
Set a auto responce email in both your account ,it will be available in setting. Add a note to it stating your new email address and tell that you will not be using the account again . this will let others know why you dont respond to their emails.
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