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Meetings - participants that declined are still being notified of meeting chat messages
We're facing a quite annoying problem with Teams meetings that causes all participants that were invited - irrespective of their response (unknown, decline, tentative) - to be brought into the meetin...
dannygm - Ideally there are three options: 1) Attending, 2) Not attending but I'd like to read the chat later, 3) Not going, leave me alone, I have too much work to do, Yes I am being anti-social. 
Seriously, option 2 should be an "Opt-In". By default, if I am attending I should get the chat. If I decline the meeting, I do not get any of the notices about the meeting, or the attendant meeting features.
I work with a part of the company in Europe. My phone goes crazy at 4am because someone set up a meeting badly. DIng...Ding!!... Ding-ding!... di-ding-din-ding-ding! (Dings coming in so fast the last one doesn't finish...) 
Exactly, but a full decline should not add you to the chat, in my company, there are plenty of meetings that I'm not interested in joining, and I still get a lot of notifications from these messages, is not being picky, I can always click on "leave" and then "hide" but that's not the ideal scenario.