Bad phonetic spelling can causes da eyes too you know... or maybe it's the opposite
it took me three minutes to understand what you meant by addy. Now I got that you meant address.
I do not know what yahoo group you're talking about. You write like it's MY group but I have not started any groups there. So you'll have to exert some patience and go view old messages in this forum to find it back. Sorry but I can't help there.
As for you losing the address after a crash... you might want to get a mac next time.
I never lost a single byte of info after crashes since 1993 and four macs... and no virus either... and no hard drive rebuild.... and no this and no that
That care man !
... time to go !