On 7/15/02 6:42 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk" <Barry Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'Most people' don't freak when an email you send is added to their mail > database - how else could you read it? > > When the calendar invitation arrives YOU have the choice whether or not to > accept or decline it. If YOU want to, you can have entourage add the event > to the calendar tentatively before you respond to the email OR you can set > it up so this doesn't happen. > > What is wrong with this folks? It is all in the control of the user - that's > YOU. > > I really can't get my head round all the complaints. What is it people are > objecting to?
Okay, since you asked -- first of all, I was very unnerved when the chime went off and the task suddenly appeared on my screen. I was sure I had some kind of computer virus. I did not appreciate that at all. Maybe Entourage X makes sure you can decline or accept. Entourage 2001, I can tell you, does not, if the message sits in your preview pane. The invitation goes right to your calendar without asking your permission. Second of all, I'm using Entourage 2001, not Entourage X, and I have looked everywhere for the "Calendar Preferences" that will let me choose whether to "tentatively accept or decline" invitations, and I cannot find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction? It's not in the Calendar tab under Preferences, nor is it in the Notification tab. I'm one of those who reads e-mail in the preview pane. After one of you pointed it out, I did notice the odd icon beside Harry's test message. I don't normally attend to those icons, simply because I don't use them. Third of all, I had to laugh at the guy with a lofty attitude who said that we should "read the instructions." If only we actually RECEIVED a printed set of instructions, or even a PDF manual. I bought Gene Steinberg's "Office 2001 for Mac: The Complete Reference," which is at times useful, but despite it's name, hardly complete -- I've had lots of questions I couldn't find answers to there. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who is not a completist when it comes to learning software -- I figure out what I need in order to get our job done, and if I don't use the calendar -- and I don't, not at all so I know next to nothing about it -- and I don't need to send invitations to people, I don't laboriously plow through the documentation. If that means I'm not on your "higher plane," sorry, I've got work to do. Also I resent receiving unsolicited invitations from strangers. I don't like them when they come from telemarketers, spammers, pop-up ads, or people placing "reminders" on my computer that I did NOT have a chance to decline or accept, but not even from people taking up my time by forcing me to stop, look at it and decline or accept. I'm with Harry on this one, I think it's offensive for someone to send this invitation to an entire mailing list. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Helen Glazer, Webmaster George Glazer Gallery Antique Globes, Maps & Prints http://www.georgeglazer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � -- 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/>
