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Properties include:\r\n  - **sender**: Already exists on ReceiveAction.\r\n  - **recipient**: Already exists on SendAction.\r\n  - **dateRead**: The date/time at which the message has been read by the recipient if a single recipient exists.\r\n  - **messageAttachment**: A CreativeWork attached to the message.\r\n\r\nWe could then move EmailMessage to be a subtype of Message.\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/comments/199849389","html_url":"https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1020#issuecomment-199849389","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1020","id":199849389,"user":{"login":"vholland","id":4692272,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4692272?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/vholland","html_url":"https://github.com/vholland","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vholland/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vholland/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vholland/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vholland/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vholland/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vholland/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vholland/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vholland/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vholland/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-22T14:48:55Z","updated_at":"2016-03-22T14:48:55Z","body":"> would a letter e.g. to/from Charles Darwin be a Message in this sense?\r\n\r\nThe letter itself would me a Message.\r\n\r\n> would you expect a page describing such a letter to be described as a Message?\r\n\r\nIn this case no. The page itself is a CreativeWork about the Message.\r\n\r\n> how about a blog post whose content was explicitly communicative, for example this recent open letter to Stephen Fry about mental health\r\n\r\nI think this is an edge case where it depends on the intent of  the author, but realistically the markup is going to come from the blogging platform, and I doubt we will see anything finer than BlogPosting from those sites. It is too hard to do algorithmically.\r\n\r\n\r\n> My intuition is that these kind of thing are mostly not intended core use of the Message type, whereas maybe ...\r\n> \r\n> How much of threaded forum discussions would this be expected to handle? Are we in https://www.phpbb.com/ territory?\r\n\r\nI was thinking Message is more for a small, targeted audience where discussion forums, blogs, etc. are not.\r\n"}}