- excludes), a client sender will still initiate a send of the filter
- rules to the receiver, but it only includes those rules that are
- receiver-specific. Older protocols used to omit the sending of
- excludes in this situation (since there were no receiver-specific
- rules that survived --delete-excluded back then).
+ excludes), a client sender will now initiate a send of the filter
+ rules to the receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of
+ excludes in this situation since there were no receiver-specific
+ rules that survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with
+ all the filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the
+ other side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule
+ list is often empty in this scenario.