Many questions about brewing SOUP?

[Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk>]

Hi,

I've just started to test SOUP and I have several questions about its
operation.

1) 

How long will nnsoup articles remain by default?

2) 

To see my SOUP groups I made nnsoup one of the secondary select
methods and then restarted Gnus. I then used "Browse foreign server"
with type "nnsoup". Then subscribed to all my nnsoup groups which
were shown as being "killed". 

Is this the right way to have gone about things or should I have
restarted Gnus and then used "A z" to see the zombie groups and "u" to
subscribe?

3)

I am using SOUP to copy my mail articles from an nndoc file to my home
machine. Once at home I re-spool the articles to my "nnml" files. Is
this the best way to use SOUP for reading mail?

4)

I noticed the command "gnus-batch-brew-soup" and used
describe-function to find out what it was for:

    emacs> gnus-batch-brew-soup: an interactive compiled Lisp function
    emacs> in `gnus-soup'.  (gnus-batch-brew-soup)

    emacs> Brew a SOUP packet from groups mention on the command line.
    emacs> Will use the remaining command line arguments as regular
    emacs> expressions for matching on group names.

    emacs> For instance, if you want to brew on all the nnml groups,
    emacs> as well as groups with "emacs" in the name, you could say
    emacs> something like:

    emacs> $ emacs -batch -f gnus-batch-brew-soup ^nnml ".*emacs.*"


This is exactly what I needed as collecting articles from the nntp
server can be slow. 

How come this function is not documented in the info files?

5)

How do I use this function to collect all articles in all the groups
from all the servers to which I am subscribed?

6)

Once I get my SOUP packet home, can I re-spool my news to the nntp
server or is it best just to use nnsoup to read news?


Thanks.

-- 
Eze Ogwuma