Send to Contacts found in Search

[zerubbabel]

It would be extremely helpful to be able to search for a set of contacts that match a particular search string and then easiliy send a message to all of them at once.

Right now (unless I am missing something) I have to create a new group, then do the search, then drag each contact, one by one, into the new group while holding down the shift key so that it only puts a link in the group, rather than relocating the contact itself. This is tedious, but I can bear it for a group that I will use over and over. However, for just a quick one-time selection, it is very tedious.

Why can I not select multiple items from the result of a search? If I could do a multiple selection, then right-click to compose a message to all of them, that would be fantastic.