ssh failure due to local error

[e-letter]

Readers,

I have tried the following command:

rsync -t *.txt ssh user at remote.machine:

and receive the following error:

rsync: link_stat "local/machinepath/ssh" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
main.c(1031) [sender=3.0.2]

My understanding of the manual is that the text files on my local
machine should have been transferred to the remote machine. There is
one text file, created to practice my use of rsync. What is happening?
How do I solve?

rsync at conference.jabber.org
mandriva 2008
rsync 302