One year of JISA—letter from the editors-in-chief

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With this third issue, we reach the end of the first year of the Journal of Internet Services and Applications. As editorsin-chief, we have learned that creating a new journal and making it successful is a challenging task that requires a lot of hard work, but it is very worthwhile and rewarding. We remain committed to making JISA a key vehicle for the Internet research domain and are very happy with the great feedback and enthusiastic reception we received from both the academic and industrial communities. We would like firstly to thank the authors of the 60 papers that have been submitted to JISA in this first year and the hard work of over 100 reviewers that helped us select the papers and provided valuable feedback to authors to improve their papers. In the current issue, JISA features two invited papers from leading researchers in their fields, focusing on the most fundamental aspect of the Internet: the people that use it. The issue is then completed with two original research papers spontaneously submitted by their authors in the areas of Spam Filtering and Wireless Mesh Networks. The first paper, “Human Aspects of Internet Services: Considering the Needs of Users and Providers” by Claudio Santos Pinhanez from IBM research, presents a classification of Internet Services according to the level of participation of people as providers and users of the service. It then discusses interface issues of Online Services, i.e., Internet Services in which humans perform a significant role both in providing and using the service. The paper uses the con-