On 7/15/02 11:11 AM, I wrote:
> I was wrong when I said earlier to click Cancel Invitations. Only the
> sender of the invitation can do that - it sends out a Cancel email. I
> don't know why recipients even have that button. It should be a Decline
> button, I would have thought. I'm trying to send myself an invitation, but
> when i receive it I see it as the sender, not the recipient. Anyone else
> want to send me an invitation? I want to see how to decline gracefully...
>
Thanks to Ken Frazier, I can verify that it's easy to decline invitations so
they don't "invade" your calendar.
This is in Entourage X:
Even though I have my Calendar prefs set to "accept invitations
tentatively", what i see when I open an invitation email (which has a
special Invitation icon in the message pane so it's easy to spot) is a blank
email with links to
Decline | Accept | Accept Tentatively
By clicking Decline, a dialog came up with the option to decline without
responding, with responding with comments, or with responding without
comments. In all cases, the calendar event is automatically deleted from my
calendar. (This would be the same in 2001.) It's as if it never existed. By
choosing "Respond with comments" , I sent Ken a polite note - a message
addressed to him which appeared automatically - declining his invitation. If
I choose "Respond without comments" the decline email goes out to him
without opening up on my screen. (In both cases it will update his Invitees
Stats automatically at his end - with comments means he'll get a personal
email from me with it.) "Not responding" would let me ignore annoying
invitations.
By clicking Accept, I'm quite sure I'd get a dialog with options to respond
with or without comments.
Accept tentatively must mean what we all did on our Conduit invitation. I'm
not sure if there's an option to respond - I'd imagine so. I'll check with
the next invitation.
In Entourage X with prefs set to Accept Tentatively by default, and in 2001,
doing nothing means the invitation in entered in the calendar. But by
declining you remove that, In X, changing the Prefs would mean that the
invitation would never appear in the calendar unless you lick Accept or
Accept Tentatively when the email arrives. By default you'd be declining.
(You could always fish out the email later and accept then.)
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Paul Berkowitz
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