Working on my #uucp connections between laptop and rpi. For some reason my Linux notebook just doesn't reach the rpi via uucp, and it doesn't make any sense at all.
SUCCESS!
it turned out to be two completely different problems, so when I changed the settings to check if it did anything it didn't lead to any noticeable improvement, because the other issue still was blocking.
oh well, at least it taught me stuff.
which means our small #uucp net looks roughly like this now...