There are at least three ways AML members (and Irreantum subscribers) can be notified.

We have a database that we update whenever someone renews their AML membership or their Irreantum subscription.

When it comes time to send out a new issue of Irreantum, we use two mailing lists: one for continuing members and subscribers, and one for those who are receiving the last issue in their membership/subscription. The latter group is supposed to receive a renewal notice with that last issue, and that's how they know their AML memberships or Irreantum subscriptions are expiring.

For those AML members or Irreantum subscribers who are registered to post on the AML Discussion Board, an additional email notice will be sent out when we get ready to send the next issue (the one after the final issue in their subscription).

We update our records to show that people are no longer AML members or Irreantum subscribers when the Irreantum editors notify us that the next issue is going to the printers (so people have a few days to renew before we prepare the above-mentioned two mailing lists).

If you haven't received an Irreantum for a while, it may be because they are behind schedule (the most recent issue is Fall/Winter 2006, and it's a double issue). It may also be because you didn't renew (either you didn't receive a renewal notice, or you didn't notice it).

When AML President Eric Samuelsen sent out the email about upcoming changes (it was sent in September), he encouraged people to contact us to find out their membership status. When someone contacts us, we check the AML database and see what our records say, and then we let them know.

You can email us to check on your membership status by using the E-MAIL button at the bottom of this post, or you can
email aml AT mormonletters.org
(of course, you'll replace AT with the appropriate symbol--we've written it this way because we're already getting plenty of spam).

Because Irreantum has been behind schedule, people have not been receiving them on as regular a basis as we would like, but that means that those with AML memberships are members longer than they might have been because we tie the expiration to when an issue of Irreantum goes out.

We are working on getting Irreantum back on schedule, and hope to accomplish that in the next year.

We hope this helps to answer the question.