Good thinking FD. The harmless systems will become ganking only zones with people continuously resetting their accounts to gank in sidewinders and new players will abandon the game in an heartbeat.
I suggest to put a BIG WARNING telling them not to start the game in OPEN.
I'm sure that can and will happen, until it starts to get boring again and resetting and restarting an account is kind of tedious as well. I am also sure though that there will be people who buy accounts for the single purpose of harrassing other people.
I don't like the "starter zone" thing at all, to be honest. Feels completely artificially and doesn't really want to fit into that "cutthroat galaxy" at all. I'd rather have PvP immunity for pilots without ranks.