I've recently spent some time trying to make my Gmail filters more useful. I was frustrated (as are some other people) that it's not possible to refer to contact groups in email filters.
Rather than laboriously duplicate my contact groups as hand-written filter expressions, I have written a short script that will query Google Contacts for all of your contact groups and then emit an XML document suitable for import using Gmail's "import filters" feature.
The code is available in the gmail-contact-filters project on GitHub.
If I am sufficiently motiviated I may turn this into a web service.
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