EM Alerts - Job

Dear EM Experts,

I have a question about EM alerts. We have alerts (delayed alerts) configured for the events. But the alerts job (/SAPTRX/EE_MONITOR) is OFF.

Now we want to run & schedule the job /SAPTRX/EE_MONITOR. But last time, when we ran this then it took all the overdue alters till date and sent hundreds of emails to our carriers.

Do we have a best practice to achieve this with sending too many emails?

Regards,

Ashish