You can get RSS feeds for mailing lists here. Cf. The Amphetadesk help guide: “If you get a lot of email from mailing lists hosted at Mail-Archive.com, you’re in luck. With over 2500 different lists available, simply find the archive page for the discussion in question and add maillist.rdf to the URL. The result is an RSS feed for AmphetaDesk.”
Creating Courses – Learning Objects, XML, SGML
A very comprehensive set of links to resources on Learning Objects from Kate Britt.