> That would only be if you don't read your email. If you read your email > you'll see the invitation and can decline, as I just declined yours.
I UNDERSTAND THAT! But I believe that there is something that is being overlooked that is opening up a back-door to abuse of this functionality. Let's just see how many people end up with my appointment in their calendar without being aware fo it, or having been notified about it, or it having been obvious to them. OF COURSE you and Diane know about it and declined it. Let's see how many people get caught by surprise by an alarm on Wednesday. Or, in the case of Greg Jones: > It appeared on my calendar without my accepting it and without notice from > Entourage X. And Daniel Goldsmith: > With no notification and before accepting or declining the item is in my > calendar. Or Hunter Hillegas: > same here. Or Aaron Uribe: > They are currently (were) set to tentatively accept- therefore I now have a > new calendar event. Or Phyllis Evans: > Went straight into my calendar without any notification. Now I've unchecked > "Tentatively add events" under General Preferences, Calendar tab. Never paid > attention to that before. Or Sherman Wilcox: > Yep, me too. Or Don Wolff: > Neither had I. I have now unchecked it as well. Thanks to those who pointed > this out! Judi Sohn pretty much nailed it > 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. What I'm trying to say, there are conditions where this mechanism does NOT work and does NOT make it obvious what is happening. That's a problem. The solution is easy: - Doing something about it now, now that we have discovered it. - Sticking our head in the sand, placing the blame and responsibility on users, later, when it becomes exposed as a security hold, quickly fixing it with much embarassment. Either solution sounds perfectly fine and acceptable to me. In fact, I generally find #2 to be more amusing. Personally, having a dialog box alert you that a message includes an invitation that would otherwise slip by would be the perfectly acceptable fix. Harry -- 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/>
