  In a recent paper I concluded that the neutrino background is important for
calculating neutrino flavor evolution in supernovae, and including it weakens
the connection between r-process nucleosynthesis and cosmologically relevant
neutrino masses. Comments on this paper have been posted to this bulletin
board; one by J. Cline and the other by Y.Z. Qian and G.M. Fuller. Here I
briefly discuss these Comments and demonstrate that they are inaccurate and
ill-considered. No corrections to my paper are necessary.
