While dragging and dropping text on Mail sometimes is copied instead of moved

When composing a message under Mail it happens that a word needs to be cut from a place and paste somewhere else in the body. Instead of cutting&pasting most text editors allow the user to drag the selected word (or consecutive words) and drop them as desired. Well, why on earth Mail sometimes actually moves the selected words while sometimes it copies words?
I reported this bug already under Mountain Lion, but it hasn't been fixed yet. Text Edit, built in as well as Mail, works properly.

Press the Option key to force a copy, or the Command key to force a move. Pressing both at once will create an alias.
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