WMB wrote:

Thanks to all who were kind enough to answer. I did check under my
Accounts, msnews properties and found my "server timeouts" settings were
set to to the short end at 30sec. I changed them to the long side, 5min.
Lets see what type of change, if any, this makes.

That is not the *poll* interval which is not at all hard to find. Just go
look at the options. It's right on the FIRST tab that is shown to you. Now
slap your forehead.