RE: Perplexing dired behavior on "R": "pinging..."

[Drew Adams]

> Using emacs 24.4.1.
> 
> In a dired buffer, I "% m" to mark all files containing ".org". The
> first of these, for instance, is called "animals.org". Once the
> files
> are marked, I intend to move them to a new directory, and I type
> "R". Then the minibuffer says,
> 
> "Pinging animals.org (Non-profit Organization)..."

Good one!  If you get that behavior after you start Emacs
using `emacs -Q' (no init file) then please file that as a bug:
`M-x report-emacs-bug'.  Sounds like it is picking up the
URL at point and trying to get to it.  Quite a "feature"!