diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml
index 982a805fa6..4a1cbf269a 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml
@@ -346,12 +346,9 @@
     <title>Using <application>rsync</application></title>
 
     <para>These sites make &os; available through the rsync
-      protocol.  The <application>rsync</application> utility works in
-      much the same way as the &man.rcp.1; command, but has more
-      options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol which
-      transfers only the differences between two sets of files, thus
-      greatly speeding up the synchronization over the network.  This
-      is most useful for mirror sites of the &os;
+      protocol.  The <application>rsync</application> utility
+      transfers only the differences between two sets of files.
+      This is useful for mirror sites of the &os;
       <acronym>FTP</acronym> server.  The
       <application>rsync</application> suite is available for many
       operating systems, on &os;, see the <package>net/rsync</package>