Duplicate entries created by smart group

I have an Address Book smart group created with 2 rules:
inclusiveness is set to ALL
rule 1. card is a member of group a
rule 2 card is not a member of group b
In other words I want to emaill everyone in group a except for those who are also in group b.
This works fine EXCEPT that it puts some cards in twice. I can't see why, but it's really annoying. Any ideas?

David Wilkinson6 wrote:
I have an Address Book smart group created with 2 rules:
inclusiveness is set to ALL
rule 1. card is a member of group a
rule 2 card is not a member of group b
In other words I want to emaill everyone in group a except for those who are also in group b.
This works fine EXCEPT that it puts some cards in twice. I can't see why, but it's really annoying. Any ideas?
address book smart groups are notoriously buggy especially smart groups involving any negative conditions. I can only suggest you stay away from them.

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