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]

OK, I've done that, thanks for the advice!

I don't particularly like Outlook and I just don't want to pay the absurd price of the damn thing just for this sort of feature - until recently, I was never asked to use it.

I've just recently had a flurry of them though, from people who clearly Know Not of other email clients. Pft.