kaled - 12:42 am on Sep 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

It has nothing to do with the webmaster doing any cloaking.

Cloaking is not required but it is possible that it is being used to cover tracks - that's all.

Here's a scary thought - one for the chainsaw.
What happens if, in addition to a meta redirect, you add a robots noindex meta?

I'd say it's an even money bet that the target page will be nuked without leaving any explanation in the Google cache.

Kaled.