This isn't replying to the sender, its just putting the meeting in a calendar as a "tentative meeting request". The problem with this is that booking tools will get clogged up with these tentative requests from other sources and if you receive a meeting request that is set to span a whole day it knocks out the entire day from booking availability. More @Wikipedia
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