the whole life is made out of nuances. I can undertand Ron very well, if he's waiting for an answer and his post fills up with "attaboy"s.

But what's worse is to see your posts with zero answers. I've seen a lot of mine like this in other forums... and that discourages you enough to give up :-(

So those "attaboy" mean, at last, that someone has spent his time reading you. As far as to me is concerned, they are not such useless answers.