diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 33d185d501..da751b07fc 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -1369,8 +1369,8 @@ Charlie 6 Feb 2012
 Rom    6 Feb 2012
     - client: Undo my change of 24 Jan 2012 which broke WCG's use of the
         .gzb file extension.  I was wrong in how I read the conditional and
-        it turns out that libcurl does not honor the content-encoding even
-        if it is capable of supporting it.  My bad.
-
+        it turns out that libcurl does not attempt to honor the content-encoding
+        if it was disabled as part of the request. My bad.
+        
     client/
         http_curl.cpp