While I've never seen anyone use .plan or .project files, the finger command is still widely used on MIT's network. In fact, MIT's user search (http://web.mit.e

While I've never seen anyone use .plan or .project files, the finger command is still widely used on MIT's network. In fact, MIT's user search (http://web.mit.edu/search.html http://web.mit.edu/search.html) is just a front-end for the finger command. It does raise some privacy concerns though, as you can see here: http://amap.mit.edu/ http://amap.mit.edu/