Ical 5.0.3 on 10.7.5 - how to delete invites and NOT notify sender??

I have a lot of calendar invites that come in via email regularly and I want to delete or decline them but I do NOT want to notify the sender. For example, I may have received a calendar invite from someone months ago that has recently left an organization. If i hit 'decline' ical sends an email messgae that the invite was declined - I do not want to send that email.
Have to believe I can set a flag for 'do not notify' - somewhere.
Is there a file I can edit if this version of ical doesn't make that available in preferences (I can't find it). Thanks in advance.
This is a huge problem as I receive invites from several hundred people monthly and I need too clear all this stuff out but don't icall to automatically want to send emails.
E.

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Since some time now, I'm facing slight difficulties using iCal in conncetion with its built in invitations feature. So here's my problem:
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