not really strange, from the manpage of finger:
-m Prevent matching of user names. User is usually a login name;
however, matching will also be done on the
users' real names, unless the -m option is supplied. All name
matching performed by finger is case in‐
sensitive.
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Slow NIS performance with programs such as 'finger'
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