Address book groups from selected mails

Hi
I've been puzzling over this for a while because it seems too useful a thing not to be able to do, yet I can't find a way. If I select a group of mails from my Inbox - for example, those to a specific email address - how can I add the senders to a group of their own within the Address Book, rather than have them simply randomly placed within the top group?
Thanks for any clues,
Alpha

Hi David
Thanks for replying. What a useful script! It seems to have everything I thought was missing from these applications. The only downside is that the Add Addresses seems to balk (on my comp at least) on larger quantities of selected mails, but that's a quibble rather than a complaint.
Warmest,
Alpha

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