1. Most users have “received” on their default view, and it’s proven to be extremely valuable to have the publish date information on the default view upon installation.

2. If you think about what “Received” means for email, it’s the time the message was received by your email server, NOT the time you retrieved it into Outlook. Similarly, you can think of “Received” for NG posts as the time the post was received on the weblog server, not necessarily the time it was retrieved into Outlook.

That said, I can easily see it either way – I think the way it is now, though, will make it easier for the “average user” to use, based on support inquiries up to this point. But it’s not carved in stone – I’m always open to persuasive arguments; just make sure these arguments consider ease-of-use by OL2000 users.