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 ###### Description
 
 The delete route for the Notifications resource marks a Notification as read.
+If a notification is not marked as read, Clair will continue to notify the provided endpoints.
 The time at which this Notification was marked as read can be seen in the `Notified` property of the response GET route for Notification.
 
 ###### Example Request
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 # Notifications
 
 Notifications are a way for Clair to inform an endpoint that changes to tracked vulnerabilities have occurred.
-Notifications should contain only the name of a notification.
-Because notification data can require pagination, it is expected that the receiving endpoint calls the Clair API for reading notifications and marking them as read after being notified.
+Because notification data can require pagination, Clair should only send the name of a notification.
+It is expected that the receiving endpoint calls the Clair API for reading notifications and marking them as read after being notified.
+If the notification is never marked as read, Clair will continue attempting to send the same notification to the endpoint indefinitely.
 
 ## Webhook