Sync address book groups to .Mac?

I just recently singed up for a .Mac membership. I've sync-ed information to .Mac, but was dissapointed to find that only addresses without the address groups I had made in my local address book were sync-ed. I need these groups, as it will be cumbersome to send an e-mail to a group of people (20+) from my .Mac account.
Is it possible to also sync groups, or is there any other way around this issue?
Regards,
Hall

Greetings,
Indeed, .Mac currently does not sync Group designations between your desktop and the online Addressbook.
The only work around that I am aware of is to create on card that contains a listing of all email addresses in it. Bear in mind, that you must make a comma seperated list of all email addresses that you want to send to and add that list to a new card as if it were one email address. This solution is rather cumbersome to use and difficult to keep up to date.
It is much simpler to adminster groups and group emails from a desktop email client.
I suggest that you leave feedback ( go to www.mac.com and locate the link for feedback) to suggest this feature (as I have done as well).
Also, you may find more accurate support for issues like this in the .Mac section of these Discussion boards rather than the Tiger (OS X) section.
-travis n

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