After 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.
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