insideapple.apple.com?
The promotional email for the .Mac webmail refresh that went out over the weekend might have been a bit more revealing than we originally thought. Reader Harry noticed the address Apple used to send it was a bit different than the standard 'noreply@apple.com' (and honestly, I'm signed up for so much promo stuff these days I don't pay attention to who it's from with stuff like this anymore). The email was sent from an inside.apple.com domain, and following it redirects you to an apple.com/chatterbox 'we'll be back soon!' maintenance page - not the typical 'Looking for something at Apple?' page.Some googling revealed that others have seen this /chatterbox/ link used before, especially with images that are linked in newsletters, so this might be nothing more than some internal system for site and/or email and newsletter management. The 'we'll be back soon' bit simply makes it a little more interesting, as that sounds like it could actually be something public. In all likelihood it's nothing, and you can simply move along.
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The promotional email for the .Mac webmail refresh that went out over the weekend might have been a bit more revealing than we originally...
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I doubt this is anything exciting. Lots of places have FQDNs for their internal networks.
October 02 2006 at 5:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyErm, your silly comment system ate my link again. How annoying!
Here it is: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sad/205842667.html
Had you Googled just a little bit more, you'd have found that Chatterbox is "Appleâs proprietary commercial email broadcast system". Mystery solved!
October 02 2006 at 11:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyChatterbox is nothing more than an email newsletter broadcasting system. If you look at any emails you've received from Apple, the images are stored in the /chatterbox/ directory.
October 02 2006 at 11:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySeems to be there for a while...
http://web.archive.org/web/*sr_1nr_30/http://insideapple.apple.com/*
It says "Looking for something?" now.
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