Adresses in Apple mail

Apple has regressed as they have upgraded OS versions with regard to mail. I have mailing lists in my address book. One I use in particular has 78 names in it. If I want to send to the whole group...no problem. If I want to send only to a select few from the list, here's the rub. In OS 10.7, you could open the mailing list and simply go through it and double click on the names you wanted and they would appear in your to: or bcc: address line. Then I got mavericks. The double click no longer worked. But I could hold down the command key and click on names and they would be highlighted and then I could drag them into the address line.
Now with Yosemite, it gets worse. If I open the mailing list, I see the names. I can't drag them over, I can't double click on them. If I click on a name, it opens the address for that individual. If I click on the address, it moves over to the address line and the mailing list closes. I'd have to open it for EACH AND EVERY ONE that I want to include. Oh yes, I know I can start to type their name in the address line and they would pop up, but I go through the list to see who I want to include...can't remember the 78 names. Why couldn't they leave things alone, rather than changing things that are not broken with every new upgrade.
Another point, I sent in to apple suggestions...If I get a message for John X and I want to forward it to folks in my mailing list....but not to John, who sent me the message...I drag the mailing list name into the address bar and then right click to expand the list. The list is in gobbledy-gook order and I have to search through the list to find the name I want to remove. It would be so much simpler if the list opened in alphabetical order.

You can't. It doesn't work that way in landscape view. There is no way to swipe the messages list or the mailboxes list off of the screen like you can do in portrait mode.

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