Email etiquette

[bunn]

People have recently started sending me Outlook meeting notifications. I assume that these are generated automatically when they put items into their Outlook calendar, and are primarily intended to talk to other Outlook calendars.

I don't use Outlook, so the notifications just come through as rather curt looking autogenerated messages.

My etiquette question is: does one reply to these messages, as if they had been sent by a person, or does one take them as machine-generated, and respond only if one cannot make the scheduled time?

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Oh well, we've already established that you and I are the rude ones in this particular community... :-p

[chainmailmaiden]

I have no problem with people thinking me rude, it saves me having to be polite when I don't want to be :-)

I suppose I should add though that I would accept the meeting in Outlook and then not bother with any further response. Mind you I hate getting meeting requests, they usually signal something long & dull which will require me to stay awake and result in more work :-(

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Ah, now the difference is that I can't accept the meeting in outlook, because that's not a technology my client supports. I have no outlook (and want none!)

[chainmailmaiden]

I only use it at work under protest because they won't let us use anything else. I wouldn't let it near Orac or Slave :-)