heini - 11:51 pm on Jan 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

Not really sure if I understand you correctly, but redirect links are known to count to a certain extent.

Discussing the PR directories pass on which use jump urls the conesensus seemed to be, yes they do, if their own PR is high enough.
I can confirm to that from a large directory, whose cgi links sometimes even showed up as backlinks in Google.