"Sometime this week" is what I generally consider the longest appropriate response time for non-urgent emails that require a response. In practice, I generally respond as soon as I've read the original email.
This is how I interpreted the poll, as well. Obviously, "Are we still on for lunch?" is a different urgency from "Let me know if you ever find that book we were talking about". Not all emails require (or deserve) any reply at all, but if you're going to reply, and it isn't specifically necessary to meet some more urgent deadline, then I try to reply within a week. That's partly just so I don't forget things forever.
Then again, I'm old enough to think of an email as "an informal letter", as opposed to "a high-end text message".
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Date: 2009-08-21 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 10:08 pm (UTC)Then again, I'm old enough to think of an email as "an informal letter", as opposed to "a high-end text message".