The best of 'Reader Comments': a future high-tech Dome, saucy email and Nazi memorabilia revisited

We asked a series of our guests whether they'd want to do business in the Dome, now it's about to be sold and revamped. As ever, it proved a controversial subject (http://www.silicon.com/a41016 )

--No beach paradise...
From: Anon at HM Govt

The dome is not in a great location. In fact, it's a real ball-ache to get to and from. An indoor, 24 hour, tropical beach resort studded with bars, restaurants and clubs complete with lagoon and wave machine - that's what it would take for me to venture out to Greenwich again. That's what should have filled the Dome in the first place. London has plenty of tediously occupied business property but is sadly lacking in beach paradises.

--A miscalculation
From: Anon

I can't help wondering if the computer that designed the Dome's target of 12 million was the same computer that designed the millennium bridge, or the team PHILIPS yacht.

--Pricey...
From: Adrian Nelson

The most expensive office block in the UK?

As Clare Swire became a name destined to feature in year-end quizzes, readers debated just how much leeway employees should get when it comes to personal email (http://www.silicon.com/a41710 )

--Thin emails
From: Roy Fielding

I think that emails in the work environment should be just email without the added extras (pictures, sounds, movies).

Granted, we might sometimes need to send certain types of attachments, but in the main, it should be a form of correspondence and nothing more.

If one needed to send a work related attachment, then would it not be best to have a vetting and granting procedure in place so that one can't just send anything at any time?

It would certainly free up some clogged bandwidth and probably help resolve the problem of Exchange servers crashing!

--Hard line approach...
From : Mark Harold

oooo the internet ooo how scary oh no email danger ooo the sky is falling on our heads oh how intrusive and embarrassing for all involved. oh if any of MY valuable employees engage in that sort of smutty behaviour I will INSTANTLY fire them and re-train someone else over a period of six months. It's just not worth the risk of having some joke about womens' bits leaking out of the door. In fact I will fire myself, just in case.

--In short
From: Andrew Slack

It just goes to show that business and pleasure don't mix.

And the ongoing dispute between the French government and auctions of WWII Nazi materials has seemingly drawn to a conclusion. But the debate won't go away (http://www.silicon.com/a41767 )

--The price of our freedom
From: John Carlin

No doubt this story will provoke comments from 'liberal' thinkers about freedom of trade and freedom of speech. There are others who will think it overkill as the war 'ended over 55 years ago'.

Well, I would like to applaud Yahoo! for taking a stance against what I view as a very sick trade. Nothing that Nazi Germany produced in any form is worth keeping as a memento. Furthermore, to value the symbols of such a dark period of history is an insult to the men and women who died so that it would not spread.

WWII was not fought against Germany as a country but against Nazism as an evil, immoral ethos. These articles of memorabilia struck terror into the hearts of many men, women and children and, in some cases, were the last things they saw. Before people think about buying them they should perhaps contemplate The Price of Our Freedom measured in the many lives so needlessly lost.

--The price of our freedom
From : Mark Harold

All civilisations kill each other. If I auction a British Tommy's old fag box am I involved in 'hate' crime or just interested in another time in history?

There was nothing special about the Nazis. Except that they and their ways and means should be remembered and avoided in future. Collecting artefacts is a way to do this. Or is the British Museum the centre of all hate crime in the world?