You can just POST a contact and have the contact create also create a group on-the-fly if necessary (i.e., if specified group doesn't exist), which sounds like what you're doing. I don't see anything wrong with that. You can of course also provide a RESTful groups_controller to allow for POSTING of groups per-se, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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