Add only one contact email in address book group

I created a contact group in address book and added some people I knew to it.  However some of my friends have multiple email address.  (like JohnMarino @gmail and JohnMarino@yahoo). Can I limit the contact to only the one email I would like to send it to?

Yes, as long as you keep your contacts "On Your Mac." Use the "Edit Distribution List" feature in AddressBook to select the address that should be used for the group. If you use iCloud for your contacts, the option is not available. Hasn't been since the intro of Lion.
There are other compromises to get it to work with Lion, but they are clumsy and generally result in multiple contact listings.

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