WMB wrote:

My post may not have been as clear as i intended, sorry. I'll give a
senario: I have opened a newsgroup and I am reading a posted message and
its accompanying replies. The accompanying replies may contain info that i
wish to make note of, an if its a long post, when the message refreshes it
jumps back to the beginning of the message and you must scrowl back down
to the point where you were reading. I was wondering if the interval of
the refresh rate was adjustable?

You configured the news account to be included in the polling interval that
you also configured in OE. You could disable that news account from being
included in the configured polling interval but then you will have to do the
refreshes yourself.

OE has a long-time behavior of jumping back to the top when polling for new
messages when you have scrolled down in a post. You're stuck with that
behavior in OE. It's one of the reasons why I trialed other newsreaders.