2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/128518After the rejection of their comment [arXiv:cond-mat/0609399v1] to our Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 97}, 100601 (2006), the Authors informed us that an extended version of their comment is going to be published in a different journal under the direct editorial responsibility of one of them. We then decided to make publicly available our formal reply, originally prepared for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.Reply to arXiv:cond-mat/0609399v1Statistical Mechanicstext