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A poll, to get some information for a future post (hopefully). Feel free to point other people here (though obviously they'll have to have an LJ account); this isn't Serious Research, but it would be nice to get a decent number of replies.

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Answers assuming I expect / need a reply at all. There's a whole category of correspondence, usually letters and long emails, that is just a way of reaching out to distant friends, perhaps a few times a year or even more rarely than that. I tell them how my life is going and what I'm thinking about currently, and hope they will do the same in return when they next happen to feel like it, but that can happen on a scale of months and often isn't a reply as such. I do have friends who always get back to me within the week, even with rambly personal things, but I don't expect it, especially as I can't manage it myself!