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volatilegx - 8:28 pm on Nov 11, 2006 (gmt 0)
It is a type of cloaking. Whether or not it meet's Google's webmaster guidelines is unclear, and I doubt you'll receive a straight answer from them.
I like to call this "subscription cloaking". Basically, you are giving bots free subscriptions to your website's content.