Calendar "Mail Event" has embarrassing consequences..

I'd be very interested to hear if anyone else has this problem or can repeat it. It's a pretty familiar business use case:
1. I receive a meeting invite from Colleague A (Windows Outlook) that has myself and several other recipients on it. I accept it.
2. I find out another Colleague B (Mac Calendar user) never received the invite, and they ask me to forward it.
3. I open Calendar, find the event, right click and select "Mail Event" and enter Colleague B's email address.
4. Colleague B opens the message, and the attachment, and then closes them. He does nothing else.
5. A new invite is automatically created and sent to *everyone* on the distribution FROM Colleague B, making Colleague B look like he's sent a duplicate invite (and is therefore hijacking the meeting!)
6. Recipients click Accept and now Colleague B receives the accept notifications instead of Colleague A.
This is not inline with the expected behavior which is Colleague B receives an invite request and can Accept that which responds to the meeting owner (Colleague A).
Thoughts?
Is there a workaround / better way to forward a meeting invite?
Mark

I'm having this problem too, and I have all the latest updates installed. Not sure where to go next.
Any ideas?
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Bernard Harte wrote:
#1 May be a bug as mine works as expected.
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