paste from local emacs to ssh remote term emacs

[David Kritzberg]

When I try to copy text from a local emacs session (C-w) to a remote
emacs session running in a gnome-term (over ssh), I find that there is
nothing 'on the clipboard'.  I've never really gotten the hang of the
'kill ring' but I can copy and paste in the opposite direction, and I
can copy from galeon/mozilla into a remote emacs running the same
way.  Can anyone suggest to me what I might be doing wrong?  Thanks