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Funny stuff - Nate

Oh my Kevin, oh my... - Hutch Carpenter

Exchange is SO STUPID. Just because I decline a meeting doesn't mean that I never want to see it again, be aware that it's still happening, or want to waive the ability to change my mind. If I have a meeting conflict and have to decline a meeting, then a few days later the other meeting changes or is canceled, I have *no idea* that the first meeting (that I can now happily attend) exists! - Kevin Fox

I think you've just explained why it's so hard sometimes to get people to RSVP meeting invitations: they want to make sure they absolutely can or can't attend before sending the RSVP to Exchange/Outlook's black hole. - Mark Trapp

The lack of centralization for an organization is what really kills me. Newer users move their copy of the meeting without realizing there's no notification to the owner, and no warning that you shouldn't do that. Or for all users, the owner changes the meeting but neglects to send out the update (or the update fails to arrive for all users) and then half the attendees don't know why the other half isn't in attendance. - Stephen Mack

Also, there are three options: Accept, Decline and (depending on the context you're looking at the event) 'Maybe' or 'Tentative', which mean very different things ('uncertain' vs 'yes, without confidence'). - Kevin Fox

We use Exchange here at EMI too, and it's just unbelievably bad. I'm scared to know how much collective productivity is lost due to these sorts of issues. - Eric Case

I don't decline meetings anymore because of this. The only state I use is Accept or nothing at all. It's even worse as a remote employee not being able to see what is going on - Benjamin Golub

isn't there an option to display 'declined' meetings like iCal? - kartik vaithyanathan

What's the difference between 'accept tentatively' and just taking no action? - Kevin Fox

Kartik, all my searching says 'no'. It's been suggested to me that I write a script that regularly looks in my 'trash' folder and forwards any events in there to a new 'declined events' calendar, but that just makes me ill. - Kevin Fox

*sigh* - Kevin Fox