This is simply the way the program LISTSERV uses for UUENCODE works (it
has its own reasons which were explained to me once and which I promptly
forgot - it was designed for PC software). UUENCODE is not a file
transfer format like Netdata, it is a way of translating a stream of
binary bytes into a stream of non-binary bytes that mailers will usually
leave alone. In the particular case of transient MODULEs, there is a
rather legitimate case for wanting to use UUENCODE to retrieve the file,
but what about regular MODULE's?
Eric