Hi,

> Although I question the usefulness of spending time and energy defining
> an extension whose usefulness we find debatable, I wonder: what would
> the user experience be here? Do I need to click a button verifying that
> I have read and understood each message (say, before the client will
> show me another message)?

maybe I can join in this discussion because we implemented at Mila.com the mark 
as read as well, but in a custom protocol. 

We store all messages in a database in order for our clients to be retrievable 
by an API. 
When now a new message gets sent from Alice to Bob, the database will be 
updated and the conversation will be marked as unread. 

Bob now opens his browser or smartphone and sees that he received a new 
message. He goes to the conversation and reads the message. At the point when 
he received the message, we broadcast a custom "read"-message to all online 
resources of Bob. This way we ensure that if he's connected with another 
Client, the conversation won't be marked as unread on the other Client. 

We currently do not mark each message as read or unread, just the conversation 
between two users.

So sending the read message is done automatically.

- Michael
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