-be refused by your rsync server. When an option is refused the server
-prints an error message and exits.
-
-The full names of the options must be used (ie. you must use
-"checksum" not "c" to disable checksumming).
+be refused by your rsync server. The full names of the options must be
+used (i.e., you must use "checksum" not "c" to disable checksumming).
+When an option is refused, the server prints an error message and exits.
+To prevent all compression, you can use "dont compress = *" (see below)
+instead of "refuse options = compress" to avoid returning an error to a
+client that requests compression.