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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Peter Ashford wrote:

> I wanted to turn off the mouse selection / pasting feature of emacs.  I
> tried putting  (mouse-sel-mode nil) in my .emacs file but that didn't work.

Does it help to set the variables interprogram-cut-function and 
interprogram-paste-function to nil?