Next time it's given will be Spring, 1997. This topics number will be used in Spring 1996 by me to give a graduate-level course on Phylogenetic Inference. Methods for inferring phylogenies, and methods for doing things with them. Some background in statistics necessary. After this year it will be given every other Spring under another number.
Most postings are serious discussions by researchers.
Some percentage of them are semantic issues or legalistic discussions of taxon names. Low volume, high quality. Supposed to be the forum for discussion by population biologists. But they don't post much there. This helps ensure that real population biologists will continue to avoid the group.