Mail edit drag n drop bug

Drag and drop to edit text when composing a message in Mail sometimes does a cut and paste, other times does a copy and paste. The correct function is to always cut and paste. This has been confirmed in notes posted by Dee Run and by James WIlson7, although those notes are now archived. A response to Dee Run by Goldenshoes suggests careful clicking can provide a workaround. However, there should be no need for such finess: if drag n drop moves text, it should always perform a cut and paste. The fact that it sometimes does a copy and paste is a bug.
This is a minor problem, but it is an irritating defect which I have observed through several versions of OSX: I don't remember how long, maybe back to 10.4 or earlier. I suspect the fix will be fairly simple, such as insuring a bit is set properly before the edit is carried out. I have reported the problem several times and keep hoping, but no fix yet.
It is important for the user experience that drag n drop always perform as advertised. It seems more requests for a fix will be necessary to get this repaired. It might be helpful if others confirm here their observation of this problem. Please join me in bringing this to the attention of Apple through the feedback in Mail.

Thanks for the reply, Thomas.
I don't think I have a problem with my system, nor that I am doing something wrong. I have seen this intermittently for years through many system upgrades. I try to keep things in order by frequent scanning with Disk Utilities and occasional full rebuilds with Disk Warrior and cache cleaning with Onyx.
Goldenshoes suggested that doing the drag and drop more slowly would reliably lead to cut and paste. I have not investigated this, but it suggests that perhaps if you did drag and drop more quickly you might see the copy and paste behavior.
The posts by Dee Run and James Wilson7 I found by searching for Mail Edit drag drop. Dee Run said
Strange drag and drop text editing behavior in Mail
The response form Goldenshoes is in this thread.
Strangely, now I cannot find the post from James Wilson7 even though I found it easily earlier today, and I can find many of his other posts: James Wilson7's Stuff. Perhaps the post I am looking for is not present because this is "James Wilson7's Latest Content" and the post I found earlier had been archived.
Well, now I have found the post by searching for "Mail drag drop".
Text drag and drop creates a copy
Looking at these other posts in more detail, I see that James Wilson 7 observed the problem in Mail/OS X 10.5.2, Dee Run observed it in 10.6, and in a reply the problem was confirmed running 10.6.1 by Michel Chaouli.
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[svn:fx-trunk] 11574: Drag and Drop - Bug fixes:

Revision: 11574
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-11-09 10:53:35 -0800 (Mon, 09 Nov 2009)
Log Message:
Drag and Drop - Bug fixes:
- Added slight delay before drag-scrolling start.
- Single selection ctrl+drag fixed.
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QE notes: None
Doc notes: None
Bugs: SDK-24047, SDK-23999, SDK-23871
Reviewer: Glenn, Deepa
Tests run: checkintests, mustella (List, ListDragDrop)
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24047
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23999
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23871
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