stupid anthrax q: would microwaving your snail mail help?

[Alan]

On Sunday 14 October 2001 13:11, sunder wrote:
> This is a stupid question but as I'm not a biologist, I'll ask it anyway
> and risk looking foolish...
>
> Would it help to microwave your mail if you don't know where it came from
> and you're sure it doesn't contain an objects?  i.e. it's not a CD you've
> ordered from Amazon. :)
>
> Do anthrax spores get cooked enough by microwaves to be killed, or are they
> too dry in spore form to be nuked?
>
> Of course, if we start mass nuking our mail, the terrorists might mail us
> something that would explode when nuked... still, for now it's a question
> to ask.

Will foil-embossed Halmark cards ignite if microwaved?  How about things with 
staples in them?

This anthrax situation is just someone being a spore sport...