Here's a list of the messages which seem to have gotten lost:
  commit -- command line parsing		Jeff Hostetler 
  commit -- finnish strings			Jeff Hostetler 
  Re: translation of abiword to Danish	Jeff Hostetler 
  Graphics in AbiWord			Jeff Johnson - Alphanumeric Systems 
  cvs problems				Justin Bradford 
  commit -- was Re: translation of abiword to Danish Jeff Hostetler 
  commit -- image drawing problem		Jeff Hostetler 
  Display fonts				Jeff Johnson - Alphanumeric Systems 
  commit -- FmtMark cleanup			Jeff Hostetler 
  Word 97 import/export			Halfdan aka Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen 
As Andy mentioned, for more details, see the archives.  
Paul