Oh Google (calendar) Please Stop!

I really like the relatively new breeze coming from Google. Well off-course I’m using the search engine, but recently due to limited storage space on the university mail server I started forwarding my emails to GMail. It was a pleasure to find out I can still use Thunderbird (my email client) using POP3 at home and IMAP at the university (firewall issues…). Than I discovered Google Calendar and more surprisingly I found out I can synchronize it with with Lightning, a calendering task manager plug-in to Thunderbird (which I was using).
One day, not long ago I got an event invitation, probably generated using MS-Outlook. Happy to see that I can Accept or Decline from Thunderbird and amazed when it appeared correctly in my online Google calendar. One day before the meeting I got a nice reminder.

In the following hour or so, I got a mail from one of the attendees, politely thanking me for the reminder.

I DID NOT ASK FOR ANY MAILS TO THE OTHERS!. I’m the last one in the food chain of this meeting. This was a disappointment…
Probably the Thunderbird interface is not 100% aliened with Google’s, but still this should be my decision. So what should my workflow be?
Accepting the meeting on my email client, opening the browser, logging to my Google account, accessing the calender, finding the event, editing the event. This is too much.
I don’t need two interfaces to manage my appointments. One more scary thing, I didn’t fined where this option exists in Google calender. I could only find a link labeled “Email guests” and I’m too scared to click it…more emails might be send.
So from now on I will not accept meeting invitations but create my own, at least until someone will explain me how it works (Danny are you free?).

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