I hate to break it to you, but that file is compressed with gzip. Netscape, IE, and even Lynx, it seems, will ungzip it for you automatically:

% lynx --source 'http://cpaweb01.planetarion.com/botfiles/galaxy_listing.gz' | less

So it looks like it is a text file, but it is in fact compressed. Hence, the .gz extension, which is usually a dead giveaway. This means that use of LWP::Simple is going to cause trouble. This is because you will get the raw GZIP file. What I did was:

use LWP::Simple;

$content = get ("http://cpaweb01.planetarion.com/botfiles/galaxy_listi
+ng.gz");

print $content;
[download]

You can do something like:

% perl test_get | gunzip -dc | less

A better solution would be to use the gzip compression library module, or use it externally through backticks or a pipe call.