block mode paste feature

Can vim be made to DWIM here? I did a quick search and found I'm not the only one who has run into this. For example:
http://briancarper.net/blog/341/

Just to re-explain what I want: when you visually select a block, you can change or insert and it will change the block but when you paste a single line buffer (I can see how this might get not be so simple for pasting multiple lines) it only changes the first line. The "fix" of using C+R in insert mode as was mentioned works, but the behavior isn't what I expect.

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