Lack of standards for directories. Worries about security and privacy. The registration services arm of the InterNIC is coordinating the creation of a global white pages directory for millions of internet users. It find out a person's login file and hence the email address. In addition it gives information about the real name, location and time where last logged in.
Finger displays the contents of the .plan and .project files in the home directory.
Both the name and host are optional and finger searches accordingly. It could be an exact match,case-insensitive, for a user's first name, as listed in the system's accounts file. It could be an exact match, case insensitive for a user's last name, as listed in the accounts file. Telnet to clubmidd and try the finger command. Finger fails when the server is not running on the target computer.