POP server overload?

One of my hosting accounts is on a shared server and the administrator recently notified the users on the server that many people were checking their email every 30 seconds which causes the POP server to go down for 10 minutes. The admin then asks all users to check the POP only every 5 minutes. Any POP email accounts that overload the servers will be disabled.

My question: Is checking the POP every 30 seconds an abuse of the server performance? Will it really cause it to go down? I'm no admin, but sometimes I check my own email 3 times a minute POP server overload?

 

 

 

 

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