>> This 'boiling', is it good, bad, or indifferent?  What does it mean?
>
> Boiling is a good thing.

Most likely not.  It's probably not boiling at all, but rather releasing
hydrogen sulphide gas due to being overcharged.  This is very bad because it
removes necessary chemicals from the battery that can't be easily
replenished.  Hydrogen sulphide can also explode under the right
circumstances.  Does the battery smell like rotten eggs?  If so, it is being
damaged.  I had this happen to a car battery once when the voltage regulator
died.

(It's good to have email back, no thanks to Verizon.  In a whole week they
never got three machine names pointing to the right combination of two IP
addresses on their DNS server.  They never did fix it.  The right solution
turned out to be using a different company for DNS and web hosting - after
my email was down for several days.  I strongly advise everyone to stay
clear of Verizon for any kind of hosting service.)


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