On 7/15/02 1:58 PM, "Judi Sohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/15/02 4:41 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you got o General preferences/Calendar/ and uncheck "Accept invitations >> tentatively" it will never appear in the calendar unless you specifically >> click it to Accept. (Entourage X). > > That preference should be unchecked by default, not checked. Look at how > many people on this list didn't know what was going on, and this list > represents a higher user level than you'd find normally. Microsoft should > assume that people do not want to automatically accept anything from someone > else unless specifically set to do so. Why should it be unchecked by default? That way you'd never know about it. Its only because it happened that i discovered this myself, and I'm an avid beta tester who's had Entourage X for over a year, and Entourage 2001 for a year and a half before that! I'm glad it appeared What in the world is the harm in having had one calendar event added automatically until it stimulated me to go read about it in the Help or go to calendar preferences (where else would it be?). What harm is it doing anyway? You'd think I'd let in a thief, or worse, to my house. It's nothing of the sort. It's a nifty feature which I can turn off if I want to. Big deal. > >> That gives you a lot of control, >> especially when you consider that most people will want to use this and you >> don't have to if you don't want to. > > How do you know that "most people" will want to use this? I would think in > this day and age, "most people" would not want another user to be able to do > anything at all to their email program, even if it's a simple as adding > something to the calendar. "Most people" freak when software resets their > home page without asking permission first, they certainly don't want > calendar events added by others by default. So turn off the pref. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
