  The recently published analysis of the coincidences between the EXPLORER and
NAUTILUS gravitational wave detectors in the year 2001 (Astone et al. 2002) has
drawn some criticism (Finn 2003). We do not hold with these objections, even if
we agree that no claim can be made with our data. The paper we published
reports data of unprecedented quality and sets a new procedure for the
coincidence search, which can be repeated again by us and by other groups in
order to search for signature of possible signals. About the reported
coincidence excess, we remark that it is not destined to remain an intriguing
observation for long: it will be confirmed or denied soon by interferometers
and bars operating at their expected sensitivity.
