There is no middle ground with autogenerated doorway pages, if you do it and they are recognizable as doorways then you risk getting banned if caught, it's up to you whether you want to take that risk or not.
Cloaking is more of a grey area. Although with google at least it's against the TOS, you can do it and get away with it if you fly under the radar, and most people agree that you are fine doing it as long as you are just "cleaning up" your html on your already solid content pages. If you are redirecting wholesale into a surfer trap then that is grounds for a banning once you're caught. Once again, there are no guarantees and if you aren't willing to pay the price (getting domains banned) then don't do it.
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