Glad they're working on it; I got half a dozen over the course of a few days. The "move to a new calendar and delete the calendar" move was what I went with, but it is annoying.
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Apple Working to Put a Stop to iCloud Calendar Spam
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Option 1 works perfectly get invites directed to your email (signing into iCloud online then iCal ) - this way your Email Spam filter takes them out....they never hit you or the calendar.
http://osxdaily.com/2016/11/26/icloud-calendar-spam-invite-stop/
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http://osxdaily.com/2016/11/26/icloud-calendar-spam-invite-stop/
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Nope. Not interested. Nobody needs to send me invitations via the calendar app. And nobody legitimate is ever going to. Friends email me directly, or they phone me or send a text to my phone. I don't want anybody but me putting anything on my calendar.
You mentioned it would make sense to just get them as emails, and in response to that I mentioned that you can select the option to have it work that way.
Fair enough. But then why allow them to come to the calendar at all? It just opens the way for more spam. My friends have my real email address. The only messages that would ever come to my calendar would be spam.
So that they get processed faster/automatically? Many people haven't experienced spam and get the benefits of having things processed faster and in an automatic way. Mostly depends on ones needs, and the options for different approaches are available for people to choose what works better for them.
Calendar invites are very useful for meetings – you can have the agenda, teleconference details, who are the other participants as well as confirm/deny from the meeting participants.
Meeting invites is a standard practice in large corporations. With the right software (Exchange, mostly), you can see other people's available time slots for meetings.
Here's a solution that worked even better for me. The spammers send to a calendar named "Home". I renamed my Home calendar to something else, and the messages have completely stopped, despite the fact that I inadvertently alerted them that the email was correct by "declining" invitations. Might eventually have to do for other default calendars as well, like "Work".
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Invites don't come by calendar names, but basically by iCloud accounts/email addresses.
It's still there, just one screen deeper essentially: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/imessage-block-user-feature-gone.1995303/#post-24007166