2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55428It is shown that Zaslavskii's misunderstanding of our published proof of the irrelevance of all extremal black hole configurations (whether with equal charge and mass or not) rests on his refusal to see the essential difference between the correct inequality governing extremal and non-extremal actions and his incorrect version.1 page, REVTeX, adapted from reply in PRL 80, 3413 (1998)High Energy Physics - TheoryGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext