diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index fe0fb8c0b..ef74158f5 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
-                                  _   _ ____  _
-                              ___| | | |  _ \| |
-                             / __| | | | |_) | |
-                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
-                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+See http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html for the edited and human readable online
+version of what has changed over the years in different curl releases.
 
-                                  Changelog
-
-This file no longer holds the changelog. Now you can generate it yourself
-like this:
+Generate a CHANGES file like the one present in evey release like this:
 
 $ git log --pretty=fuller --no-color --date=short --decorate=full | \
   ./log2changes.pl
-
-The older, manually edited, changelog is found in git named CHANGES.0