Adding contacts to group in address book

Arghhh - I searched for Address Book in this support site and they said no matching entries!!!
So before I "upgraded" to Lion, I could drag a whole bunch of emails into a group in Address Book.  It now will not let me do that! (I hate Lion!)
Does anyone have a work-around for this?  I sent an email to 50 people and I want to create a group from these emails without importing them one by one and then manually adding each one to a group..
There must be a way to do this! (And of course "Help" for address book has nothing about this.)
Thanks,
Marty

What is your existing method for adding these contacts? If you are for example selecting a sender's email address in Mail and using "Add to Address Book" then you can't hook in to that process. If on the other hand you are working directly in Address book, adding a card and then fill it in, you could replace that with a script that would prompt for the necessary details, including group (with default Work Phone). You could even put a pretty front end on it with XCode.
Alternatively you could periodically run a script to periodically trawl for contacts with no assigned group and move them to a default group for analysis. I posted one here recently.
AK

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