Filed under: Rumors, Internet, Apple
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jon said 11:13AM on 10-02-2006
It says "Looking for something?" now.
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BA5 said 11:27AM on 10-02-2006
Seems to be there for a while...
http://web.archive.org/web/*sr_1nr_30/http://insideapple.apple.com/*
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Mike said 11:39AM on 10-02-2006
Chatterbox 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.
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sdfjkl said 11:43AM on 10-02-2006
Had you Googled just a little bit more, you'd have found that Chatterbox is "Apple’s proprietary commercial email broadcast system". Mystery solved!
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sdfjkl said 11:44AM on 10-02-2006
Erm, your silly comment system ate my link again. How annoying!
Here it is: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sad/205842667.html
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Aaron said 6:21PM on 10-05-2006
I doubt this is anything exciting. Lots of places have FQDNs for their internal networks.
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