europeforvisitors - 12:34 pm on May 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

Marcia, the original post didn't merely ask how cloaked sites are ranking well at Google; it included the statement:

My clients are begging me to implement cloaking scripts on their sites aswell as that is the only way I can think of to fight it. I don't want to, I think spam cloaking is dispicable but Google aren't leaving me much option.

So discussions of whether one should or shouldn't cloak (and whether Google is likely to do anything about it) certainly aren't off-topic.