Auto organization hierarchy traversal in email addressees

An article comprising:

• a storage medium having a plurality of machine accessible instructions, wherein when the instructions are executed by a processor, the instructions provide for:
• a) parsing an entry in an email addressee field;
• b) determining whether the entry includes a predefined notation appended to the entry, wherein the predefined notation includes a direction of traversal and a level of traversal;
• and
• c) if the entry has a predefined notation appended to the entry,
• traversing a hierarchy structure from a name in the entry to a designated level of the hierarchy structure based on the direction and level of traversal indicated in the predefined notation;
• retrieving email addresses of names listed at the designated level;
• and
• replacing the entry in the email addressee field with the email addresses retrieved from the designated level of the hierarchy structure;
• wherein the predefined notation defines a relationship between the names at the designated level and the name included in the entry, the predefined notation including a special character indicating if the designated level is a higher or lower level than a level of the name in the entry, and a level indicator indicating a number of levels between the designated level and the level of the name in the entry.