So after I paged back and declined it, I got the message and it stayed in a declined state.
The unfortunate recipient of my trial and error tryout of the feature got in touch with me saying in effect "Whats Up?".
I went back and r- approved it even though I approved it three times and declined it once all by paging back.
I know this will not be a problem for most people and it probably works fine as most folks will not page back to "test it out" once the notice pops up. So not really a bug but maybe a loophole.