[sldev] Extending the Mute List

[Able Whitman]

While I was investigating how to extend the viewer's mute list
functionality, I discovered that the format for the mute list that the
viewer expects is actually different than the format that the service
provides.

This hasn't caused a problem yet, but only because the viewer code which
parses the mute list just happens to do the right thing, even though it is
broken. The problem is that this bug precludes the viewer from making use of
the (currently unused) MuteFlags field in the mute entry list, since if this
field has a value other than the default of zero, the mute list parser will
be return an invalid value for the entry's MuteType field.

It's sort of an odd, subtle bug, so I'll relegate the details to the actual
JIRA issues:

SVC-309: Mute list files returned by the service are malformed
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-309

VWR-1170: LLMuteList::loadFromFile() improperly parses the mute list
returned from the service
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1170

I'm working on a wiki entry detailing how the mute list works in the viewer,
which I will (hopefully) post later today when it is done.

--Able
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