Why BinSCII?

[mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)]

In comp.binaries.apple2, tolsen@netcom.com (Terry R. Olsen) wrote:
>Jeff Barbanell (jeffb@cybernet.cse.fau.edu) wrote:
>: Could someone please u/l or post BinscII to this area. Can not seem to 
>: find my copy. Thanks!!!
>
>If we post BinscII to this area, how are you going to UnBinscII it?

Someone posted an executable but uuencode crossed my mind as an alternative
which leads me to the following questions:

Since most of the binaries posts are Shrinkit archives, is there an advantage
to using binscii rather than uuencode?  Considering that a good number of
people (if not most of them) who access USENET do so via a UNIX or VMS
system, I'd wager that uuencode/uudecode would be more readily available
than bsc/sciibin.  Besides, compiling the latter could be a problem for
people who aren't familiar with compiling or for people with small disk
quotas.

Then again, binscii'd files seem to be smaller than their uuencoded
counterparts.