Suddenly group won't send

For the past 2 years, I have been sending a daily post to a group I have created. Over this time, I simply type in the name of the group and it goes out en masse. I created second group over the weekend and now when I type in the name of the first group, I get an email error message saying the name is an invalid email address.
Anyone have a solution or suggestion? Please?

If there are not too many in the old group, try sending an individual message to each of them - I would like to eliminate the possibility of one of the addresses being faulty.
If there are a lot in the group, make another new group, drag half of the original group to it then delete that half from the original group. Send group messages to the original (group 1) and latest (group 3) and report back.
AK

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