Next time it's given will be Spring, 1997. This will be a graduate-level course on Phylogenetic Inference. Methods for inferring phylogenies, and methods for doing things with them. Some background in statistics necessary. It will be given every other Spring under a number that has not yet been assigned.
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.