Newsgroups.... ugh

Just curious if someone knows of a group that consistently has good files to download or something like that...

more than anything, I want to make sure that this news client is even downloading correctly because it seems like everything I try fails with the error "no data to decode"

whatever the fuck that means... that error message might as well just say "Problem." 

sabnzbd
http://www.angelfire.com/gundam/newsgroupguide/freenzb.html

or maybe your server has like 2 day retention. check the retention on your nzbs and then on your ISP's site.