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Clarify that clients should not ack their own messages
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Travis Ralston 2019-05-28 07:27:41 -06:00 • committed by GitHub
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Clarify that clients should not send read receipts for their own messages.

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@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ Clients should send read receipts when there is some certainty that the event in
question has been **displayed** to the user. Simply receiving an event does not
provide enough certainty that the user has seen the event. The user SHOULD need
to *take some action* such as viewing the room that the event was sent to or
dismissing a notification in order for the event to count as "read".
dismissing a notification in order for the event to count as "read". Clients
SHOULD NOT send read receipts for events sent by their own user.
A client can update the markers for its user by interacting with the following
HTTP APIs.
@ -94,4 +95,3 @@ Security considerations
As receipts are sent outside the context of the event graph, there are no
integrity checks performed on the contents of ``m.receipt`` events.