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Events sent into rooms of this version can have formats which are different
from their normal schema. Those cases are documented here.

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The behaviour described here is preserved strictly for backwards compatibility
only. A homeserver should take reasonable precautions to prevent users from
sending these so-called "malformed" events, and must never rely on the behaviours
described here as a default.
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