Outlook works the same way, and has for years and years. Outlook probably has a billion times more users then Entourage. And yet, nobody's been complaining about spam appointments in Outlook.
Why is that? My guess is that if you're a spammer, you're just trying to get your message out on a wide scale. There's no use optimizing for a specific mail client when you have no idea what mail client your recipients will be using. Such optimization would be at the expense of just making their message and getting it out faster. If you knew that someone was using Outlook and you wanted to annoy them with bogus appointments, that's different. Still, the settings are there to prevent that (with the apparent exception of Entourage 2001. If you're going to rant about a poor design decision, confine it to that.) Remember that these calendaring features are targeted towards corporate users, and in that context, the default to tentatively accept appointments becomes more clear. Assume, if you will, that your average corporate user is slightly less skilled with the program than we are. If their company is using calendaring on a wide scale, and an employee for whatever reason opened an email with an appointment but didn't send the reply, yet later missed the meeting because no reply was given, it could be seen to be a failure of the tool, rather than the ineptitude of the employee. (Poorly constructed sentence alert) By having that setting default to true, the tool itself is playing "better safe than sorry" and trying extra hard to prevent those scenarios until explicitly being told not too. -Aaron > From: Harry Zink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:40:12 -0700 > To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Conduit Reminder? > >> I doubt spammers utilize Entourage on a wide scale. And I have yet to receive >> a spam invite on Outlook. > > They will once they become aware of it. > > I assume this feature works on the Windows version just as well? > > It would form an amazing SPAM tool. Send out a single e-mail to large > numbers of mailing lists, set the scheduled alarm sometimes in the future, > and wait and see it go off, and capture the full attention of the recipient > (after all, it's an alarm/appointment). > > Trust me, this *WILL* be abuse, unless it's plugged in time. > > 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/> -- 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/>
