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In article <WEX.90Jul19173122@dali.pws.bull.com> wex@dali.pws.bull.com (Buckaroo Banzai) writes:
   In article <JANSSEN.90Jul18175044@holmes.parc.xerox.com> janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) writes:
      The willingness to consider a "pencilled-in" appointment might be
      stronger than we think.  What if we could see "scheduled events", which
      we have not committed to, on our calendar?

   Someone sent me email with a similar suggestion.  I don't think this would
   work because it would lead to the person who scheduled the meeting having
   too high a degree of uncertainty.  She'd have to go around and ask everyone
   whether they were coming or not.  This would lead to a huge decrease in the
   value of the information on the system which would lead to people stopping
   using it.

Ah, but what if by clicking on the pencilled-in suggestion you can either
contact the person, reject the time/date suggested, or confirm your attendance?
Actually, the design is more subtle than this, and Alan and I have had this
discussion before, but a dual scheme -- proposal to the user, and buy-in by the
user, with freedom to reject -- is the keystone.

Bill
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