Reply to "Comment on 'Ponderomotive force due to neutrinos' " - art. no. 068702

We acknowledge an algebraic error in our previous calculation of the ponder omotive force due to neutrinos, though we disagree strongly with the other criticisms of the previous Comment. Our calculational error leads to a fact or of four change in our quantitative results concerning the strength of th e ponderomotive force. It does not, however, change our qualitative result that the ponderomotive force due to neutrinos is completely negligible in c ore-collapse supernovae. [S0556-2821(99)03716-9].