I believe the answer is no, however I was wondering if anyone had any other opinions. Would http://www.site.com/outgoing.php?id=http://www.other.com be of any help in SEO to www.other.com?
I'm not so sure, Google's mythology is if you link to a site it must be more important. Why should it be relevant what method you use? In the above example, they can likely tell its purpose (to take you to http://www.other.com/) by requesting it. More obfuscated methods, such as using complex javascript, might not carry weight, but that's probably more to do with the technical difficulty in parsing them.
nullbit, that's along the lines I was thinking. Google is getting smarter, however they can't seem to follow a URL with a variable in it to another site.
I like indirect links too, which give my sites more chance to be crawled, sometimes it's important to be indexed earlier.
Inderect links, being links that go through a jump page usually for tracking before they go to your site. No good for passing PR or directing spiders to your site.
Well, I don't have any proof to support my ideas, just think bots should be clever enough to figure out where it's supposed to go.