Gizmo puzzle solved
Remember a long time ago I griped over some funny referrers I couldn’t figure out? I sent the domain owner of gizmo.org an e-mail, but received no reply.
Now the puzzle is solved, as the bot owner has come forward:
Michel Arboi is using a bot as his personal Netcraft style crawler. He originally gave it a random referrer, but stopped doing it since it gave the domain owner trouble.
Michel, how about you put a referrer to your own domain in the user agent, leave the referrer empty and explain what you’re doing on your own domain name? Use a free website if needed, as long as you give a good explanation (so it won’t be taken down).